Sentence examples for refinement contrasted from inspiring English sources

Mattila shared the Op 33 orchestral songs with Thomas Hampson, whose impeccable refinement contrasted with her expressionist rapture.

But in "Die Hard" the villain's refinement is contrasted not merely with the plain-spoken street smarts of, say, the police officer played by Dana Andrews in "Laura" but with an American pop-cultural archetype.

Along with a preoccupation in literature with death and damnation, there appeared a contrasting refinement of expression and sentiment bred of nostalgia for the courtly, chivalric ideal.

An analogue refinement method is used in which experimentally measured phenotypic attributes are iteratively compared and contrasted to those of leukocytes in vitro.

Rough slabs of mahogany framing a schematic landscape are embellished with smoothly finished and painted wood in Donald Kapela's "Field," another work that deliberately combines and contrasts rawness and refinement.

Chaplin not only delights in the refinement of ancien-régime manners but sharply contrasts them with the undignified pratfalls that result from efforts to conform to bourgeois propriety.

Chaplin not only delights in the refinement of ancien-régime manners but sharply contrasts them with the undignified pratfalls that result from efforts to conform to codes of propriety.

This approach contrasts with the traditional crystallographic refinement approach, where F calc (hkl) are computed from a single structure and optimized against F obs (hkl).

In contrast, refinement with unrestrained N/O content gave reasonable results: instead of full occupancy of nitrogen in NbON, the nitrogen position was occupied by 0.64 5) O and 0.36 5) N atoms, which also agreed with the results of elemental analysis.

Female style here has not reached the peaks of refinement that male style has; to compare and contrast the company's various leading and rising male dancers was a richer experience than the same exercise proved with its women.

Summary charts, giving brief accounts of respondents' views, noting similarities and contrasts with illustrative quotes, formed the basis for selective elaboration and further refinement of relevant themes.