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

Promoted to president in 2005, Landgraf has become known for taking chances on shows and creators that fit his refined taste and hoping a well-heeled audience will follow. 

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2017

As a refined taste is being cultivated, a growing desire is manifested to decorate the idols with splendid tinsel and gewgaws, which are admirably calculated to heighten the magnificence of the scene in popular estimation.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder