Significats de certain refinement en anglès

But in spite of this poverty the Chapel-master had a certain refinement about him.

They, nevertheless, showed a certain refinement of blood and race.

Her features, thinner than they had been, seemed to have gained a certain refinement.

In China, from time immemorial, they have possessed a certain refinement of industry and art.

For emotionally these creatures still preserved a certain refinement.

The features seemed to her to have a certain refinement which she had not noticed before.

The boy has a certain refinement about him, a thoughtfulness and consideration which set him apart from the others.

Beneath the flashy ugliness of its modern wall paper and upholstery, a certain refinement persists from an older generation.

It offered to one a certain refinement of form, a comeliness of proceedings and definite safeguards against deadly surprises.

He had a certain refinement.

Gerald was a handsome lad, like his father, but marked by a certain refinement and a hint of delicacy.

Yet in this frank avowal of masculine selfishness and sensuality Hahn finds "a certain refinement of sentiment"!

In the first place, it is characterised in the case of bloodless offerings by a certain refinement of the material.

Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has

Mr. Jordan shrank from dispute, hated every sort of contention; this characteristic gave a certain refinement to his otherwise commonplace existence.

His clothes were superior to mine in every way, and he had a certain refinement of manners which betrayed his ill-concealed Knickerbocker lineage high.