A teenager from a middling, liberal family marries her teacher, a man of refinement 45 years her senior who she is convinced is an unsung musical genius, "a great man" — and ends up trapping herself more completely than if she'd remained in more mundane spheres.
Commercial success is much more probable with a "ready-for-sale" product (for example, reagents that can be produced immediately in the lab) than with a new technology that, with refinement and years of clinical trials, may yield a wonder drug eventually.
It has reached a level of maturity and refinement light years away from the very first platform games".
Designed with crewed missions in mind, it could be thought of as the production version of the rocket, endowed with all the refinements of years of real-world tests.
Briony felt the disadvantage of being two years younger than the other girl, of having a full two years' refinement weigh against her, and now her play seemed a miserable, embarrassing thing.
Refinements occur every year or two, to add new attributes or to tweak the maths.
But there's been refinement over the years, as there always is.
These guilty pleasures, staged by Robert Ross Parker, whose broad-stroke style has grown in confidence and refinement over the years, will not surprise followers of the company Vampire Cowboys.
I understand there's a certain comfort with playing a first-person shooter, but they're now becoming a bit like Madden or one of those WWE games: marginal refinements every single year.
And these very same safeguards are going through a multi-year refinement and improvement process right now.
