Sentence examples for refinement than from inspiring English sources

The trend in this work, however, looks to be more toward refinement than wild funkiness, which is a little disappointing.

No company dances "Giselle" with more elegant refinement than the Mariinsky (sometimes too much so in the peasant dances).

GTI Mark Five was a proper hot hatchback with a better blend of pace, practicality and refinement than any rival.

But this jaunty, single-gallery rehang has more brio, if less refinement, than the average permanent-collection show.

For the role, she took lessons to "speak like a white person", with more refinement than the "broken and bushy" country vernacular envisaged earlier in writing.

Teaching in the daigakuryō gradually shifted in emphasis from Confucianism to literature, since the kuge set a higher value on artistic refinement than on more spiritual endeavours.

Chopin's music and his style of performance partake of the same leading characteristics - refinement rather than vigour - subtile elaboration, rather than simple comprehensiveness in composition - an elegant, rapid touch, rather than a firm, nervous grasp of the instrument.

Its tight grain has a more subtle influence on the wine than looser-grained oak, adding elegance and refinement rather than obvious oaky flavors.

As shown in Fig. 1, the cell length was ca. 3.850 Å after the refinement, smaller than that of Pt crystal (3.923) and larger than that of Ni crystal (3.523) [28].

Elsewhere, the story is one of quiet refinement rather than noisy revolution.

The distinction of the treatise lies in its classical refinement rather than in its originality.