Sentence examples for refined imitation from inspiring English sources
It was a pretty refined imitation.
As the alt/indie descendant of Natasha Henstridge in Species, Scarlett Johansson is initially predatory, her clipped English vowels and thousand-yard stare effectively suggesting an imitation of life, an act refined to lure male prey like the finely wound fly-fishing ties about which Stellan Skarsgård waxes lyrical in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac.
With characters who are beyond hackneyed, "Heartbreak Hospital," which opens today in Manhattan, unfolds as a shrill high school imitation of "Nurse Betty," a movie that created refined screwball comedy out of the confusion between reality and television suds.
More particularly, an initial "antique" (or archaic) style matured into a sublime style, whose gains were consolidated and refined into a beautiful style, which eventually collapsed into a decadent, anticlimactic, academic style of imitation.
Smooth, refined and spicy.
Refined but not rarified.
"Rummaging is not refined".
