refined taste

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

A trendsetter of refined taste, who popularized empire dresses, developed many new strains of roses and became the first to decorate with a leopard-print rug?

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021

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

Unlike most of his contemporaries, however, he was endowed with the most exquisite and refined taste; his graceful manners fascinated all about him, and made him in matters of pleasure the ruler of the Court.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole