It's straight out of the pages of French Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in the '70s, when all was refined sensibility, and Mr. Richardson was in his glory.
He has incorporated about 100 works by Noguchi into a series of distracting theatrical environments -- including sound and disorienting lighting -- that have far more to do with his own proclivities for Pop-surrealist thanter than with Noguchi's exquisitely refined sensibility.
He was, famously, the white boy from Tupelo, Miss., who sang like a black boy and who shocked refined sensibilities by moving, as Time magazine observed in 1956, "as if he had swallowed a jackhammer".
"You work to refine your sensibilities so that you can really look at each stone or object and let it tell you where it wants to be.
Looking back over his previous collections, you can see a witty, sexy and spirited aesthetic evolving, but, crucially, with a carefully refined commercial sensibility.
Though covering a vast period of personal and public turmoil, "Graham Greene: A Life in Letters" traces, quite astonishingly, no refining of sensibility and intelligence.
Kim Yu-na won the women's figure-skating title with a blend of technical mastery and, above all, refined artistic sensibility that made it difficult to believe she was a teenager with the weight of South Korea on her bare shoulders.
Morandi developed an intimate approach to art that, directed by a highly refined formal sensibility, gave his quiet landscapes and disarmingly simple still-life compositions a delicacy of tone and extraordinary subtlety of design.
Later Ms. Dench's fierce precision suggests the joy of refining her sensibility, particularly in the fussy wrestling match she has with her husband, the dotty and much softer critic John Bayley Jim Broadbentt).
Inevitably, one is reminded of Brontë novels such as Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey, and the play is clearly about the clash between a refined poetic sensibility and a boorish, as well as Boer-ish, brutality.
We experience emotions at the crude stage of our human development, while feelings appear when we begin to refine our sensibilities.
