"cultural refinement" is correct and usable in written English as it describes the act of improving or perfecting one's manners, customs, or beliefs within a particular society or group.
It is typically used to refer to someone's personal development or the overall refinement of a society or group. Example: "Her love for travel and exposure to different cultures has greatly contributed to her cultural refinement and understanding of the world." In this sentence, "cultural refinement" is used to describe the individual's personal growth in terms of their cultural awareness and understanding.
It's something that few like to hear especially about the foods we deem so central to our cultural refinement.
Mr Pinker speculates that we have become more pacific through the gradual cultural refinement of rational capacities that have guided us away from ancient strategies of violence.
A female France, seen as the bastion of sensual pleasure and elite cultural refinement, is a made-to-order enemy for the Texan in the White House, Ms. Douglas contended.
Their high degree of intellectual and cultural refinement — and the mixture of self-loathing and self-regard that is their most recognizable tribal feature — makes these people at once exquisitely vulnerable to pain and adept at causing it.
Most Ethiopians place less importance on artifacts of culture than they do on an idealized ethos of cultural refinement as reflected in a respect for human sanctity, the practice of social graces, and the blessings of accumulated wisdom.
In 1066, William the Conqueror subdued the Saxons — a barbarous, uncivilized race — not only providing England with cultural refinement but also imposing upon the island a class of gentry who were genetically equipped to rule.
Spending time in jail is no fun anywhere, but each society has its own cultural refinements of misery.
Tugging at its master's leash, so that the young man's calves bulged with muscle as… Spending time in jail is no fun anywhere, but each society has its own cultural refinements of misery.
Although material from the same period at Alişar Hüyük seemed to indicate a relatively primitive community of farmers and traders, the tombs of Alaca Hüyük provide evidence of considerable cultural accomplishment and refinement.
Based on this successful trade, Charleston entered a golden age; it soon was perceived locally as city of refinement and cultural attainment.
Their latest – which looks east, recounting a shamisen-strumming boy's quest to unpick a tangled family history – fends off questions of cultural appropriation via the refinement and sensitivity of its penhand.
