subtilize

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Hecht refined and subtilized the banter of the old screwball comedies into ironic japery, and Hitchcock directed with an unparalleled mastery of sexual tension.

From The New Yorker

The spiritual comprehension may be infinitely subtilized, but the raw material it operates upon must remain.

From Project Gutenberg

But the men's shoddy is merely a horror, whereas woman transfigures and subtilizes the cheap material.

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The risk in subtilizing stage character lies just here.

From Project Gutenberg

Theosophy—and a large share of what is called theology—is simply a refining and subtilizing of mythology.

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