refined
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In this and other ways, the hybridized Crosstrek is not so much different but comprehensively improved: more refined, responsive and meaningfully more fuel efficient.
Her biggest undertaking in subsequent years was “Women of Will,” a two-person touring production, which Packer wrote and refined over 15 years, in which she played about 20 female characters from Shakespeare’s plays.
Some ideas refined among scholars eventually find their way into the curriculum and textbooks of college lecture halls and high-school classrooms, where student politics and perceptions are shaped.
Before Rome, Filippino’s painting was a refined extension of the Florentine tradition from which he emerged, whereas after, it became a stranger, more disconcerting mix of the ancient Roman world and the modern one.
"It's a perfect, simple, sober homage" to not only a talented artist but a "courteous, splendidly refined" person, said Giulia Carraro, 75, a former personal assistant who moved in his circle.
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