refined taste

Example Sentences

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For Hume, critics with refined taste ultimately decide what is good or bad art.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

In this town, their refined taste is not going to protect them.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2020

The Bloomsberries could be at turns backbiting, encouraging, critical and adulatory; their “radical and subversive code of conduct,” coupled with a refined taste for the good life, shaped Keynes’s approach to economic questions.

From New York Times • May 20, 2020

But for all their ideological similarities, Sanders and Warren are in many ways as different as ice cream and petit fours — one a reliable, simple classic; the other, a less familiar, refined taste.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2019

It is really surprising how much a refined taste and skillful gardening can accomplish in so circumscribed a space.

From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray