Sentence examples for so much refined from inspiring English sources
As early as 1679, John Dryden was complaining that "the tongue is so much refined since Shakespeare's time that many of his words are scarce intelligible, and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions that it is as affected as it is obscure".
Donne wrote, when his wife was alive, some of the tenderest, subtlest, most moving expressions imaginable of a love both profane and sacred – take this, from A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: But we by a love so much refined, That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assurèd of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss.
But this is not so much refined posh tea as full-on sensory assault, with ingredient combos and presentation that may give even Ferran Adrià pause for thought (smoked mackerel parfait in a coffee-dusted bonbon served in a cup of coffee beans, anyone?).
Playwright Duncan Macmillan is writing it on set, and most of the time will be spent not so much refining the action as mapping out what is actually possible.
An online advertisement can do only so much, however refined, powerful or entertaining it may be.
It's interesting, though, that Cavett, outwardly so much more refined than a go-for-the-gut puncher like Leno, indulges in the same kind of easy, pat indignation.
Giving different players different experiences isn't exactly new territory for Nintendo — games that took advantage of GBA/Gamecube cable come to mind — but the concept seems so much more refined, so much richer now.
But there is also only so much that refining our communication of uncertainty will achieve.
Apart from David Cameron, the object of this week's pig-molestation allegations, few know better than Vince Cable, a 7 May victim in Twickenham of the key marginals strategy that Lord Ashcroft's millions did so much to refine.
I look so respectable, so refined, so "nice," so inoffensive, so sweet, even!
Vatican merchandising and marketing are not new, so much as newly refined for the third millennium.
