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-- Indeed, though not quite free from "raffinement", its melodies are exquisitely interesting and lovely.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

_ Or, c'est pour atteindre à ce beau moral dans tous les genres que la sensibilité est la plus tourmentée; qu'elle est en proie aux contentions de l'esprit, aux émulations de l'âme ... qu'elle pare avec tant de raffinement et de peine, les écrits, les discours, les passions, enfin toute la vie publique et privée. '

Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880

Addison, Pope, and Swift, have vigorously defended the rights of good sense, which is more than can be said of their contemporary French authors, who have of late had a great tendency to 'le faux brillant', 'le raffinement, et l'entortillement'.

Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

Addison, Pope, and Swift, have vigorously defended the rights of good sense, which is more than can be said of their contemporary French authors, who have of late had a great tendency to 'le faux brillant', 'le raffinement, et l'entortillement'.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1750 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

Installés aujourd'hui à Paris, ils interprètent le répertoire de Broadway avec des extraits desMisérables, Nine, Evita, Billy Elliot et bien sûr, Miss Saigon: une sélection incluant classiques etnouveautés, raffinement et émotion.

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Supreme raffinement, une barrette de mousse vient épouser mon front, m’assurant confort et parfait maintien.

Pro-Consumerist Poet #2 : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Addison, Pope, and Swift, have vigorously defended the rights of good sense, which is more than can be said of their contemporary French authors, who have of late had a great tendency to le faux brillant, le raffinement, et l’entortillement.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

"The way in which Longus excites the sensual desires of the lovers by means of licentious experiments going always only to the verge of gratification, betrays an abominably hypocritical _raffinement_ [331] which reveals in the most disagreeable manner that the naïveté of this idyllist is a premeditated artifice and he himself nothing but a sophist.

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890