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Example sentences for: rarefied

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However useful in the rarefied halls of academia, it is conspicuously ineffective in the real world.
In the rarefied world of concert music, film composers were always thought of as versatile and skilled, but with nothing crucial to say.
She's a child of the middle class who attended Brearley, New York's most rarefied girls' school, and Radcliffe, from which she graduated in 1962.
Who would have expected that in 1934, Petr V. Vilyams could have been making such a rarefied, Vuillard-like canvas as Nana , with its profusion of sensuous patterns and textures, a painting that just reeks of sex?