1. refining - Noun
2. refining - Verb
of Refine
Source: Webster's dictionaryArt is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. Gwendolyn Brooks
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. Roy L. Smith
Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good. John D. Rockefeller
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. Chaim Potok
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Cather
No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education. John Cowper Powys