Sentence examples for rarefied from inspiring English sources

In February, he suggested a slate of works readers could vote for to ensure the Hugos had relevance outside "rarefied, insular halls of 21st-century Worldcon 'fandom'".

"We should be fostering genuine shops, not ones for tourists", says Mr Bennett.Perhaps the villagers learned from the experience of their neighbours in Hampstead, a similarly rarefied community that recently went to war with McDonalds.

Ordinary Mexicans fret over the national shame that would ensue if God forbid, but will He?—the rarefied and polluted air of the capital were to make the feeble pontiff keel over.

Where the oscillations in the fluid had bunched the baryons tightly, they remained bunched; where they had been rarefied they remained sparse.

Now, years later, I can see that what I really wanted was to belong to an elite and rarefied group.

Up on the rarefied and leafy heights of Kolonaki, home to some of central Athens' most expensive shops and their exceedingly well-heeled clientele, it was hard to find anyone really upset by Syriza's victory – or worried by Tsipras's warning that the vote was "a defeat for the oligarchs and elites".

These are well marked, but still sufficiently rustic to allow you to forget the "Rodeo Drive on a hill" that is the increasingly Americanised Positano or the rarefied "Glyndbourne interval picnic" aura of Ravello.

"Elitist" doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.

Heir to a family fortune and an Irish baronetcy, he was educated at St Paul's School and Oxford University and spent a charmed early career in the rarefied air of Westminster thinktanks and policy advisers.

Having made his name with down-to-earth raps about Weetabix and KFC, can we now expect more rarefied subject matter?

He then moved to France to make red Burgundy, the most rarefied and tricky wine of them all.