He sang with lyrical ardor, yet stylistic refinement as well as impeccable French diction.
She lacks both stylistic refinement and glamour; she may show more pliancy and daring in due course.
I had been a fan in the 70s, but by the late 80s I felt his books had lost the narrative power and stylistic refinement that had first attracted me.
Versification of the Bible developed a new degree of exegetical and stylistic refinement, while the letters of Paulinus of Nola and Sidonius Apollinaris, bishop of Auvergne, display a picture of cultivated aristocratic and ecclesiastical society.
Later royal reliefs of Amenhotep III and of the post-Amarna kings show a stylistic refinement that was carried to its best in the reign of Seti I at Karnak, at Abydos, and in his tomb at Thebes.
Yet the highest stylistic refinement of Hawks's artistry and the highest tribute that he pays to Chandler is in the code of conduct, the metallic cool of keen judgment, elegant violence, and seemingly relaxed self-control in the face of danger, that marks Marlowe and his toughest adversaries.
During the 1960's the anti-Corelli sentiment among critics was epitomized by Alan Rich, who in a 1966 article for The New York Herald Tribune acknowledged the vibrancy and white heat of Mr. Corelli's singing, but considered him a throwback to an earlier era when, from Mr. Rich's perspective, musical compromises were common and stylistic refinement lacking.
Pleading anniversary plans of its own, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence refused to lend the painting that probably most typifies the artist's stylistic refinement, "La Madonna dal Collo Lungo", a representation of the virgin as a most elegant swan-necked woman.
Yet the highest stylistic refinement of Hawks's artistry — and the highest tribute that he pays to Chandler — is in the code of conduct, the metallic cool of keen judgment, elegant violence, and seemingly relaxed self-control in the face of danger, that marks Marlowe and his toughest adversaries.
It is still shocking that Ruskin refused to recognize, in Whistler's consummate stylistic synthesis, the refinements on his own particular hero, J. M. W. Turner.
