Sentence examples for extraordinary refinement from inspiring English sources

In the fantasy world of his music, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky suggested both extraordinary refinement and extreme pathos, sounding notes of triumph and cavernous despair.

Painted on a small panel with extraordinary refinement by someone in the workshop of Dieric Bouts (around 1450-60), a vision of the Virgin seated on a grass-topped wall with the naked babe in her lap is divinely blissful.

The profoundly original feature of Maya religious thought, in comparison with that of other pre-Columbian civilizations, is the extraordinary refinement of mathematical and astronomical knowledge, inextricably mixed with mythological concepts.

Commissioned for the 10th anniversary of Bartók's death but only completed in 1958, Lutoslawski's Musique funèbre is a work of extraordinary refinement, intimate and immense, its sepulchral pulse strong and slow through an arc of fragmented dances, flecked spiccato, dusty pizzicato, gauzy tremolandi and fevered trills.

Until then I had not known how wide a range of character and emotion ballet could cover; had not appreciated the extraordinary refinement of poetic music-drama that dance could achieve; and had not known how both my mind and body could recognize action onstage as if it were happening within myself.

"War is inherently inhumane," he writes, "but the Japanese practiced extraordinary refinements of inhumanity in the treatment of those thrown upon their mercy".

Within them a rigorous compositional skill is coupled to an imagination of extraordinary aural refinement.

The extraordinary grain refinement was ascribed to the high strain rates and high strain gradients that enhance accumulation of geometric necessary dislocations with a suppressed recovery dynamics.

In Act I she is a peasant in whom slight touches of gaucheness coexist with the extraordinary beauty and natural refinement that would lure a passing nobleman.

An extraordinary artist, he balanced refinement with drama throughout, achieving great poetic depths in the central Largo, and dispatching the finale with an immediacy and an ebullience that were immensely appealing.

It also embodies an extraordinary number of architectural refinements, which some experts believe were intended to correct for distortions in human vision.