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James Watt didn't actually invent the steam engine, he just refined it.
But after the Stirling engine, Otto came along, and also, he didn't invent the internal combustion engine, he just refined it.
She refined scientific instruments, wrote math textbooks, and developed a more efficient method of long division.
Its theories and models are being developed and refined in universities around the world building on some of the best new research in economics, complexity theory, evolutionary theory, psychology, anthropology and other disciplines.
And by rating it and by rating the different people who submit information, we can get refined results and weighted results.
By this age the brain controls very refined perceptual abilities.
Competing chieftains quickly refined the new ships to be even more efficient.
And so what we are seeing is evidence of a refined technique that was being handed down over thousands and thousands of years, all over the world.
And we see new refined tools coming out.
And I often think of the raw and the refined.
Designs were refined and developed with 150 older people and their families before the service was launched earlier this year.
Also, every time you buy gasoline in the United States, half of it is actually being refined along the coast, because the Gulf actually has about 50 percent of our refining capacity and a lot of our marine terminals as well.
She bears no similarity whatsoever to the refined and funny character Nora Charles who she played in the Thin Man movies.
The cool, refined English beauty and the warm-blooded American male -- what could possibly be more lovely?
I know, I know, it's from some different country, and it's far too refined and sophisticated for me to understand, so I shouldn't expect the "plot" to be spoon-fed to me, blah, blah, blah.
It's nice to see Julie Andrews trying a straight dramatic role here--something she hadn't done in awhile--but her character of Judith(wise they didn't try to pass her off as a 'Judy')has the old refined manners and tomboyish hairstyle of yore, and Andrews enacts 'grown-up' as any other actress would interpret frigid.
Yul Brynner is very, very handsome and Deborah Kerr is very beautiful, charming, refined, just like an English Lady.
"The Dresser" is perhaps the most refined of backstage films.
Mr Sinatra's depiction of an addict in the throes of withdrawal has divided the critics,but the fact of the matter is that even fifty years later most of us have probably never seen such a thing in real life so we don't know how accurate the portrayal is.When I first saw the film in the late 50s I was very impressed,watching it recently on video,it seemed ,to put it unkindly,hammy.Perhaps he is a victim of his own success as many actors subsequently "doing" cold turkey have,with the passing of the years,taken his performance and refined it somewhat.
It emulates the style of the American screwball comedies of the 30s, but Von voyage is more refined.
Its austerely refined look, echoey sound, mixture of unsubtitled languages, and highly challenging themes being impossible to copy: as much an accident of its peculiar production as of the vision of its director.
The acting was much more refined in this film than Waiting for Guffman, and its mainly due to the more fluidity of the characters, who seem more comfortable with their specific acting partners in this film than the previous.
Indeed, predicated on a simple narrative that is offset by opulent set pieces, imaginatively brutal murder sequences, and refined photography, the film feels like the Argento we once knew.
The whole point of Anne Elliot's character is that she was quiet and refined.
Maybe my sense of humor has become too refined...
However, I must congratulate the translator, because the English sub-titles were more refined and appropriate that the original French cues, and it probably explains the good rating the movie received on the imbd!
There is one scene that does work - Scott goes after Shielah while in a drunken state, and to see these two normally refined stars knock each other around is very disturbing and gives some fleeting idea of what goes on in a relationship such as theirs.
As Bugs was becoming more refined in some of the other cartoons from this period, 'Hare Conditioned' showed that he could still be just as appealing as a more anarchic character.
Ettore Scola, one of the most refined and grand directors we worldly citizens have, is not yet available on DVD... (it's summer 2001 right now....) Mysteries to goggle the mind.
He exudes a wonderful refined malice.
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