Sentence examples for toward refinement from inspiring English sources

The trend in this work, however, looks to be more toward refinement than wild funkiness, which is a little disappointing.

TO some, our obsessive bent toward refinement has created humanity's greatest triumphs: art, architecture, music, Cobb salad.

For fall, we see a movement toward refinement: well-tailored pieces, a rich palette of chocolates, burgundies, charcoals, navy and black.

Evidence in the press of a waxing tendency toward refinement in the technique employed by the men who break the law.

By W. E. Farbstein The New Yorker, April 8 , 1939P. 54 Evidence in the press of a waxing tendency toward refinement in the technique employed by the men who break the law.

But his seemingly Buddhistic tendencies toward refinement and acceptance need to be tempered at times with the forcefulness of an Old Testament prophet.

"Human entropy is the inherent tendency--toward increased refinement and accuracy".

The New Yorker, January 29 , 1938P. 9 "Human entropy is the inherent tendency--toward increased refinement and accuracy".

Friends hear jazz that veers toward the traditional, or toward the refinement of a basic form, and they say something like this: "It's good, but isn't jazz supposed to be looking for something new?" Whether they know it or not, they're thinking within a system of expectation that Max Roach helped create.

According to the canon, his career was a progression toward higher refinement and exactitude.

In the last 20 years of the 18th century there was a tendency toward greater refinement, lightness, and delicacy in furniture design.