Unfortunately, this search is overrefined in that it can only search for Dylan lines.
From simple patterned stripes in basic colours such as red and blue, she moved to more complex wavy lines in several colours, which she found overrefined, so she reverted (we're up to the early 1980s now) to stripes.
Indeed, it basically meant "sophisticated," like something boiled for a long time in an alembic, or, to quote Merriam-Webster, "overrefined as if by excessive distillation".
From simple patterned stripes in basic colors like red and blue, she moved to more complex wavy lines in several colors, which she found overrefined, so she reverted (we're up to the early 80's now) to stripes.
In the Chenghua period (1464 87), the blue-and-white designs became somewhat tenuous and overrefined, and the characteristic wares made for the Zhengde emperor (1505 21) and his Muslim eunuchs often bear Arabic inscriptions.
This hesitation has fascinated critics, but none of the explanations offered, such as unconscious Oedipal guilt (suggested by the Freudians) or the inability of an overrefined, overreflective nature to translate complex feeling into simple action, has found complete acceptance.
The atmospheric, unfocused imagery of Symbolist poetry eventually came to be seen as overrefined and affected, and the term décadent, which the Symbolists had once proudly flaunted, became with others a term of derision denoting mere fin-de-siècle preciosity.
The silent dignity of exile may be a subject for memoir, perhaps, or for poetry, but, to judge from this tempered, overrefined movie, it requires an explosion or two to make it a subject for drama.
Kohn's overrefined taste had made him impotent, and he and Kafka were drawn together by their awareness of flaws in themselves and the world.
In both modes, Kuehn can be somewhat overrefined, but there are wonderful pictures here, and his pioneering work in color (much of it shown on film) is quietly sensational.
Even in a margarita, like the one they make at Hecho en Dumbo in NoHo, it adds the kind of complexity and intrigue that is often lacking when the cocktail is made with many of today's overrefined tequilas.
