Sentence examples for seems refined from inspiring English sources

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 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".

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.

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.

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 "Number 34," a 1949 painting on paper, the drip technique is so adroitly scaled down that it seems overly refined, almost Rococo.

His taste for booze also seems relatively refined.

Registering for dinnerware or bed linens somehow seems more refined, even if the couple already have enough pillowcases and salad forks.

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

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.

But this was also the heyday of Braun's svelte appliances that made plastic seem as refined as porcelain, and signaled a Germany design resurgence; Kaj Franck's handsomely basic Kilta tableware for Arabia; and works of genius like the wasp-waisted Kikkoman soy sauce dispenser designed by the renowned Kenji Ekuan in 1961.