This literature's most notable features were Buddhist piety and a courtly refinement of language.
Refinement of the language of poetry was the self-imposed task of François de Malherbe.
The most striking feature of pre-Islamic poetry is the uniformity and refinement of its language.
When the Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão arrived at the mouth of the Congo River, in 1483, and erected a stele invoking the authority of his king, he encountered a courtly civilization that lacked little in refinement except written language.
"I Hate Music," the indie-rock band Superchunk's 10th album since 1989 and its second after a nine-year break from recording during the aughts, reflects an evolution almost like that of a group working the mainstream jazz language: refinement by slow degrees.
This chapter explains the model and flow of a gestural system that requires the development and refinement of a language.
It is our contention that the advanced neuro-imaging procedures demand an equivalent refinement in the language sampling domain.
The iterative process allowed refinement of the language to make it meaningful to potential survey participants.
Initial refinement of the language used in the SAPAS-AV took place after piloting the SAPAS on 10 adolescent boys and girls from a secure institution and a psychiatric outpatient clinic.
