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

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

There is certainly nothing like it, and very little that can equal it, in my estimation, either as a collection of written landscapes or as a memorial of poetical feeling, just sentiment, and refined taste.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton