Sentence examples for least refined from inspiring English sources

But none have been more tenacious than the belief that the gift of comedy is developed, or at least refined, by a traumatic childhood.

And if not, what are the implications of his new, tough stance?On the face of it, there is some evidence that he has abandoned, or at least refined, his doctrine and a good thing too, say the hawks.

By some accounts, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein overhauled — or at least refined — his theory that language was used to establish truth, to inform, after the Italian economist Piero Sraffa responded to his theory with a single gesture: fingers brushing the chin, indicating "I don't give a damn," the classic antiauthority brushoff.

Piecing together Leibniz's philosophy into a systematic whole is made more difficult because Leibniz seems to have changed or at least refined his views on a number of issues over the course of his career and because he was always very aware (some might say too aware) of the audience for any of his writings.

The least refined sea salts, with the largest proportions of other minerals and moisture, are gray and clumpy rather than white and free-flowing.

The band's first album, 1981's Send Me a Lullaby, confirms the notion that debuts usually present the least refined version of a group, but even here the Go-Betweens still sound more cultivated than most of their indie contemporaries.

Microsoft hasn't in the past impressed with its abilities here; for the most part it hasn't had to, though the constant improvement in the Surface line of tablets suggests that its teams are at least refining their skills.

Because at present in vivo based DNT testing cannot be replaced by in vitro approaches, incorporation of in vitro testing as a part of an intelligent testing strategy could at least refine and eventually reduce animal usage.

The increase in patient throughput may bring the overall cost of mpMRI down, expanding its availability and potentially opening the door to a component of prostate cancer screening, or at least refining the suspicion for prostate cancer in men with elevated serum PSA.

Finally, some have accepted both premises 1 and 2, at least appropriately refined, arguing that we can see them both to be compatible with moral realism (Smith 1994).

For example, our analysis revealed that human and mouse genome encode 1089 genes and 972 genes that contain at least one refined PB motifs at their C-terminal ends, respectively, in which 501 of human 1089 genes and 512 of mouse 972 genes are orthologous to each other (Additional file 6).