While all the time your finer feelings grow purer and more rarefied.

In recent decades, however, watching highbrow films has become a more rarefied pastime.

All of their makeup was more rarefied, and fine-woven with light.

Since then, Maher has moved between her home town of Hugginstown into more rarefied circles.

Here they sound stately, more rarefied than rootsy, and quite unlike anything else before or since.

Lifted upward, the air as it ascends the slopes is brought into cooler and more rarefied conditions.

Standards there may be slightly more rarefied.

If water were somewhat more rarefied, it could no longer sustain those prodigious floating buildings, called ships.

Many papers were delivered about the Soviet Union's current predicament, but there were plenty on more rarefied themes.

Well, far from showing any signs of vertigo in this more rarefied air, Connacht continue to fly high.

You are at liberty to interrupt him if he ascends into the more rarefied stratosphere of higher mathematics.

Their "upper air" is clearer, more rarefied than any to which mere intellectual genius can soar.

The arguments of this book seem to be directed at more rarefied targets - writing, writers, the publishing industry.

The tape she was sliding into the VCR, however, showed a character possessed of a rather more rarefied aesthetic.

And the keenness of the more rarefied air into which they ascended produced a sense of lightness and exhilaration.

A difference of only a few feet in elevation seems, strangely, to give her a much more rarefied air.