

2016 And now, thanks to our constantly rarefying visual culture, the young actormen have become precious too - choosing carefully fitted suits or statement bespokery, not a stray hair on their head or face. Affleck loves the Carlyle’s rarefied throwback allure. Jane Black, New York Times, 20 June 2017 But Mr. Lenn’s food is decidedly less luxe in Knoxville, designed to appeal to a broader audience. 2017 And so while his techniques and ingredients are rarefied, Mr. Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 21 Mar. Subrin, an accomplished visual artist and filmmaker, sifts addiction, celebrity and the plight of the aging actress into something rarefied yet real. 2017 Touching on issues of artistic survival and the porous boundary between work and pleasure, Ms. Tim Greiving,, 3 June 2019 But in 2003, when Clear was founded, biometric technology was rarefied, known to the public mostly through science fiction films. As verbs the difference between rarify and rarefy is that rarify is (rarefy) while rarefy is to make rare, thin, porous, or less dense. Poor Sharp was so used to breathing the rarified air of high altitudes that he can't stand this heavy atmosphere.Recent Examples on the Web As rarefied as his work was, as an individual and as a spirit there was something to celebrate - and yet there were foibles and missteps along the way too, so there was real good drama there. Heat rarifies atmosphere as we here realize by the influence of the sun. "Modern Religious Cults and Movements" by Gaius Glenn Atkins Philosophy also has been itself of late working in a pretty rarified region. Implied are those that presume from the actions of the principal. Express are made in the express and direct terms of assent. Ratifications are either express or implied. The landscape is highly picturesque and the phantasmagoric effects of the rarified atmosphere are bewitching. Ratification When a person communicates with another person, either in words or by actions, the person accepts and approves of the conduct. "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus" by American Anti-Slavery Society

Prose fledges into poetry, cold compliments warm into praise, eulogy rarifies into panegyric and goes off in rhapsody. I find I can't remain in a rarified atmosphere too long.ĭoreen sat on a heap of ashes, enclosed in a rarified atmosphere of her own. This was a level of behaviour where he found the air somewhat rarified.īy and by she sang, and again Percy felt himself lifted up into a new, rarified atmosphere, while he listened. "A Voyage to Cacklogallinia" by Captain Samuel Brunt I ascended to the Mid-space, and found a vast Alteration in the Air, which even here was very sensibly rarified. Įvery ProArts show raises the bar a little more, but with "The Mouse Trap ," they have entered rarified air. Īpple's stock, now in the rarified air above $600 per share, is up 48 percent this year alone. That's all changed with his representation of Katie Holmes in her petition against Tom Cruise. įew outside the rarified world of huge money New York divorces are familiar with the name Allan E. That's how much the rarified sky around the High Line is now worth, a record price that is $125 more per foot than the land beneath it.


No, they haven't ascended to the rarified air of Nashville's Country Music Hall. ĭerek Jeter's seventh-inning single Thursday in Boston put him in rarified company on baseball's hit list - tied for 10th place with Hall of Famer Willie Mays. make more complex, intricate, or richer 'refine a design or pattern'. Merriam-Websters Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Large multihull ocean racing is rarified stuff. to rarefy v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES - See also: rarefy Lexicographical Neighbors of Rarify Literary usage of Rarify Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature: 1. To the uninitiated, scuba often seems an impossibly exotic activity – an otherworldly affair as rarified as a space walk. When it comes to satisying the rarified requests of the most finicky jet-setters in Boston, nobody's got more practice than Michael DePaolis and Steven La Rosa.
