Sentence examples for rather cultivated from inspiring English sources

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Cleese said: "If you met him you would never think for a moment that he was a comedian, you would think he was a rather cultivated bank manager possibly retired, because he was quite quiet and poised and thoughtful.

Indeed, the Russian painter Boris Pastoukhoff is reputed to have settled his bill by offering paintings to the hotel's rather cultivated management.

This sci-fi aesthetic isn't just unique to the group either, but is rather cultivated by Unit 15, which has been exploring ideas like virtual and augmented realities, cybernetics and robotics, synthetic biology and utopian science fiction in relation to architecture, for the 15 year period it's been around.

Beneath the brittle, rather too cultivated exterior, she lacks confidence.

We know its appeal is mass rather than cultivated; we know it goes down easy and returns us to mewling infants.

For an extra dose of local flavor, Mr. Taylor also uses wild airborne yeasts, rather than cultivated strains, to make some of his beers, such as a golden ale called Brooklyn Brett that is named for the characteristic sour flavor of Brettanomyces yeast.

In the Pamirs, 77% of strictly medicinal plants (those that are not also used for food) are gathered rather than cultivated (see Table  3).

The native flowers are delicate and small, unlike the cultivated, rather brash varieties that adorn roadside verges and roundabouts, creating much daffodil snobbery.

In addition, the few obviously hybrid trees we know are cultivated rather than wild.

Collectively, these analyses supported the result that the only substructure within the panel was attributable to the inclusion of wild species and genetic stock lines, which are only a few generations removed from the wild species, rather than the cultivated potato market classes.

With alpine and Arctic vegetation so sparse, it is no accident that humans living in these environments have harvested herbivorous animals, including reindeer, ducks, and geese, rather than native or cultivated plants.