rarified
Speech parts
1. rarified - Adjective
2. rarified - Verb
3. rarified - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
having low density
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I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
A restaurant is an unusual business, charged as it is with stewardship of one of the fundamental processes of our animal biology. Until breathing and excretion can be commodified, the restaurant manager inhabits a rarified sphere whose only other residents are obstetricians, undertakers, and whores.
It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get enough feedback, enough people rolling their eyes at him. It's a danger more in show business than it is with wealth.