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
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
So how did art by the Pope of Trash find its way into this temple of refined taste?
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2018
But it bore the impress of refined taste, and like all articles bought for their intrinsic value rather than for show, bid fair to last for many years longer in good condition.
From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by H. B. Paull
