Sentence examples for painfully refined from inspiring English sources

Everything that counts is under the surface, in the tortured, painfully refined minds of his characters, and James wasn't, for all his gifts, very good at inventing situations that could show an audience, rather than tell it, what lay beneath his people's apparently banal words and gestures.

So refined.

Very refined.

It was very refined".

"This is more refined.

"Rummaging is not refined".

"Shanghai is more refined.

It's dignified, refined.

Refined but not rarified.

Theyre not notably refined".

Unstudied, yet refined.