Sentence examples for overly refined from inspiring English sources
His overly refined tastes encompass perfumes, monastic music, visionary painting, and the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé.
Foreign Minister Lieberman similarly dismissed Israelis who found his policies too tough as "feinschmeckers," those with overly refined tastes.
In "Number 34," a 1949 painting on paper, the drip technique is so adroitly scaled down that it seems overly refined, almost Rococo.
Tribal elders speak fondly of these one-time favorites, which in recent decades have been all but forgotten as hamburgers, fries, soft drinks and other fatty, sugary, overly refined fast and packaged foods gained favor.
FIBER is being touted today as a treatment or preventive of many of the major and minor ailments afflicting people in the overly refined 20th century -from heart disease, cancer and diabetes to constipation, hemorrhoids and obesity.
With it comes a loathing for oppressive rulers, usually identified as overly refined, cruelly civilised, callously imperialistic, as opposed to the simple, organic lives of the films' heroes (heroines do not figure significantly) who are close to nature, though no strangers to violence.
But these places have bills to pay, and it does them no good to overly refine their standards — they're geared to call a book a classic under any plausible pretext they can find.
Avoid overly processed or refined foods or foods that contain a lot of sugar.
In particular, the Fiskehusets on Gammel Strand, an establishment that was refined without seeming overly so in either its preparation of food or its surroundings, struck me as one to which I would like to return at any time of year.
Unlike us oldies, these kids' innocence has yet to be cowed by a world of bills, responsibility and overly-refined tastes.
