Quotes About Rarefied

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.

In London, it's quite a rarefied activity to be on an analyst's couch.

A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.

Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?

I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

These were the cloud forests of the far wilderness of Cos, inaccessible and remote. Only rebels haunted the wild terrain, and over the years, they had become used to the rarefied air. Many of them had given birth to mystics.

It sped her toward the idea that Dr. Lecter's taste for rarefied things, things in a small market, might be the monster's dorsal fin, cutting the surface and making him visible.

Because the eye gazes but can catch no glimpse of it, It is called elusive. Because the ear listens but cannot hear it, It is called the rarefied. Because the hand feels for it but cannot find it, It is called the infinitesimal. … These are called the shapeless shapes, Forms without form, Vague semblances. Go towards them, and you can see no front; Go after them, and you see no rear.

Theology has suffered - among evangelicals as well as elsewhere - from an undue desire for clarity and control, something to which the often abstract and rarefied distinctions of Scholastic theology have contributed.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.

Most sources agree that Dean's best work came under rarefied, idealized conditions, not under a barrage of criticism such as Strasberg's.

The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.