Sentence examples for rather refined from inspiring English sources

"To me, they aren't isolated and inconvenient but rather refined and gracious," she said.

Her accent had once been rather refined, but presumably the numbing of her own senses over many years had coarsened it.

But today's Government is much more complex – it is about managing projects, solving problems rather than standing back in a rather refined way and dreaming up new policy initiatives".

In recent years, some of the directors working on modest budgets (in and out of Hollywood) have developed a chaste and rather refined new style — a style devoted to minute perceptions of character that lead to small revelations of how life works.

I refer of course to William Wyler's Wuthering Heights starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon as Heathcliff and Cathy, which opened in 1939, and Robert Stevenson's foggy, gothic Jane Eyre, which appeared after a lengthy period of gestation in 1943, with Joan Fontaine as a beautiful, rather refined Jane, and Orson Welles as a wild, charismatic Rochester.

Mouse Morris has few airs and graces, which belies his rather refined family background.

In Britain we are rather more refined about these things.

Dr. Kane built on that to develop a deep-tank fermentation process that used molasses for raw material rather than refined sugar.

And the same contradictions apply to Burberry's appeal: the famous check that seems the essence of sophisticated Britishness to many foreign customers is also the favourite badge of a rather less refined breed of football supporter.

It is a rare child who comes through it as nugget hard, rather than refined, like Xavi Hern?ez, Andr?Iniesta and even the team's other central defender, Gerard Piqu?

However, most early studies have neglected to consider two important factors: (i) using ''live'' reservoir oil (oil with dissolved gases) rather than refined oil or dead oil, (ii) establishing the native wettability state of the oil reservoirs which is generally mixed-wet to oil-wet.