In his diary, between detailing his homicidal plans, he described himself as a "refined" individual dressed in "very expensive brand clothing".
However, the uncovering of short DNA natural transformation has led us to see meiosis as a refined gene-exchange mechanism that defines species borders and not a process that is limited by species borders.
Not Curt Schilling as an unfinished young pitcher a decade ago, but Curt Schilling as he is now, as a refined veteran.
Billed as a "refined unwind", Magic Loungeabout offered an expensive, posh pop-festival experience.
During the Tokugawa period (1603 1867) Noh was assiduously cultivated by samurai as a refined accomplishment.
Not so much a reduced world as a refined one; we're free to concentrate because there's less to concentrate on.
Most writers as well as readers of literary fiction see it as a refined form of entertainment or instruction.
At the same time as academics devoted themselves to the systematic study of this new analytical category, however, real-estate developers were applying it as a refined strategy.
The farinette appears on the menu in the main dining room of Jean Georges, as a refined wrap around escargots and molten raclette.
He has been described as a "refined and, in the opinion of some, insufficiently temperamental professor" who nonetheless "drinks copious quantities of coffee".
"I never go anywhere without one," he says, describing this delicate Balmain example as "a refined counterpoint to the rocker attitude of the collection".
