Sentence examples for seemed refined from inspiring English sources

When Isner returned, his focus seemed refined; he began the fourth set with a blistering ace, one of 23. "I needed to change clothing; I was soaking wet," he said.

Evaluators were then asked whether they thought the people making the arguments seemed "refined and cultured," "rational and logical," and "like an adult, not a child".

In a voice that made Mr. Dylan's rasp seem refined, Mr. Kennedy performed solo acoustic versions of those three songs, and the first verse of "John Wesley Harding".

The film, which combines a trilogy of shorter works into a feature-length piece, is done in a deliberately primitive style that makes the artwork in shows like "The Simpsons" seem refined.

But without the gruffness and physical heft of stage predecessors like Burl Ives, it seems a rather minor confession when he says, considering his health, "Have you ever been scared?" Mr. McGuire's Big Daddy seems refined and gentlemanly, in fact, until he begins using the kind of coarsened language that would never have been spoken on a stage in the 1950's.

In another context, Boulez's interpretation might have seemed too refined and becalmed, but in conjunction with Schlingensief's busy nullity the music was a ray in the darkness, a Grail glowing out of sight.

Only the closing sequence of international folk songs was a little disappointing, primarily because the basso's concert ap proach seemed too refined for most of his chosen ballads.

His taste for booze also seems relatively refined.

Dixon Jones has a sense of history and restraint, though it can seem bloodlessly refined.

Manila was also the place where Mr. Yousef and others seemed to refine their thinking about using planes in terrorist attacks.

The only difference, in this case, is that their style seems more refined, their timing a little more expert, their insults a little more acute.