Everything that counts is under the surface, in the tortured, painfully refined minds of his characters, and James wasn't, for all his gifts, very good at inventing situations that could show an audience, rather than tell it, what lay beneath his people's apparently banal words and gestures.
How does such a refined mind as Gang Lu's unravel so irreparably?
Certainly the refined critical mind understands that this is the kind of artful emotion machine that the movies have been making since the very first tear slid down an actress's face, the droplet seen — and experienced — around the world by audiences who answered that bead of dew with a grateful flood of their own.
He said, "Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle".
Champney, in his autobiography of 1900, wrote: "My studio has been the resort of many highly cultivated people from all parts of our country and even from foreign lands, and I have enjoyed much and learned much from the interchange of ideas with refined and intelligent minds".
In the 1994 best-seller "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain," the neurologist Antonio Damasio reports that Descartes believed in an "abyssal separation between body and mind... the separation of the most refined operations of mind from the structure and operation of a biological organism".
They are superficial environmentalist positions, based on nostalgic visions of a "green-worshipping" (Roger 1997), world, romantic and overly refined, which brings to mind various approaches, from the one considering the landscape a museum and crystallised, to the more exaggerated forms of urbanism, landscape scenic beauty aesthetic value.
We have to give the costume the look of Batman becoming more and more refined along with the idea of Batman in Bruce's mind, how he sees Batman developing.
Cut the finished product into fancy shapes with a cookie cutter or a sharp knife if you want your prawn toasts to look more refined and you don't mind wasting a few off-cuts.
But even as our understanding of genes and behavior has become more refined, some cases still boggle the mind, like identical twins who eat roughly the same and yet have vastly different weights.
Each piece, designed with the eye and hand in mind, presented a wonderfully refined silhouette — a creamer as stout as a Disney dwarf, a water pitcher as sleek as a heron in flight.
