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For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in.
Jim Crace
World
Too
Visitors
Rarefied
Seem
Arm
Likely
Greatest
Length
Them
Galleries
Spectators
Kept
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.
Florence King
Good
Achieve
Language
Good Taste
Other
Rarefied
Entirely
Tailored
French
Wrote
French Language
Meter
Verse
Pinnacle
Fits
Very
Taste
Uniquely
Plays
I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.
Louis Theroux
Art
Day
You
Learning
Space
Seen
Hung
Hierarchy
TV
Rarefied
Never
Day-To-Day
Occupy
Always
Been
Up
Same
Where
Literature
Use
Figures
For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.
Jeff Baena
Time
You
Think
Distant
No Connection
Rarefied
About
Sort
Up
America
Middle
Middle Ages
Grew
Us
Ages
Connection
A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.
George Packer
World
Everyone
Rarefied
About
Except
Almost
Toward
Contemptuous
Another
Bloggers
Curious
Thing
You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions.
Elizabeth Berg
Work
You
People
Writing
Random
Type
Rarefied
Understand
Surgery
Doing
Subject
Brain
Brain Surgery
Place
Should
Therefore
Works
Million
Need
Interruptions
To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
Dan Hill
Song
World
Country
Live
Crest
Rarefied
Altered
Existence
Sweeping
Wholly
Riding
Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.
Andre Aciman
Work
Nothing
Difficult
Would
Rarefied
Perceived
More
Proust
Hear
His
Shocked
Than
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
Charles Hazlewood
Music
Become
Rarefied
Classical
Classical Music
Maiden
Nobody
Like
Talk
Aunt
Wants
When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.
Joan Van Ark
You
Long
Changes
Air
Drastic
High
Running
Rarefied
Some
Area
Reach
Make
Very
Oxygen
After
While
Show
Series
Keep
Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.
Donna Langley
You
Business
Women
Few
See
Rarefied
Directing
Pass
Very
Few Women