Mr. Schiff's interpretations were the height of refinement, elegantly ornamented with clear and sonorous lines.
Bartenders say the clientele these days is too cost-conscious to show the studied disregard for money that was long considered the height of refinement.
The setting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Tuesday represented the height of refinement, but Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of The Guardian, reminded the black-tie crowd at the annual dinner for the Committee to Protect Journalists of something it knew all too well: in many parts of the globe, its profession is under murderous assault.
The drawings became the basis of his life's work, through which he demonstrated that the manufacture of lutes between 1550 and 1750 achieved unimagined heights of technical refinement and artistic worth.
No one not Proust or Flaubert, not Joyce or Woolf did more than James to refine the popular form of the novel into a work of high art, and "The Golden Bowl" represents the height of that refinement.
No one — not Proust or Flaubert, not Joyce or Woolf — did more than James to refine the popular form of the novel into a work of high art, and "The Golden Bowl" represents the height of that refinement.
Similarly, though meatloaf may not merit much respect among card-carrying epicures, Il Gattopardo's loosely knit, terrifically savory meatloaf (really a larger-scale meatball) achieves a height of peasant refinement, blending not only ground veal, beef and pork, but salami, prosciutto, eggs, pine nuts and pecorino cheese.
I wonder if this is because the sons and daughters of the middle class are now working in a service industry, and thus feel compelled to describe those jobs as the height of bourgeois refinement?
In Los Angeles, a certain gang of architects are taking architectural collage-making to new heights of synthesis and refinement.
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