rarefy , also: rarify

The range of her art is wide though often rarefied.

So what exactly constitutes a bad day in this rarefied little world?

The fact is that we deliberately set out on a course not to be rarefied.

Then lower the body of the tongue to rarefy the air above it.

"The air tends to be rarefied at private schools," he said.

But by the end of the 60's painting was becoming increasingly rarefied.

What little conversation they hold should be rarefied enough for you."

Television science fiction, he felt, had become too pristine and rarefied.

Chinese cooking at its absolute, rarefied best this is not.

At Akron the air was less rarefied, but the situation appeared much the same.

But as Sarah talked, the air around her grew thin and rarefied.

Though their thesis is rarefied, it has produced a show with great public appeal.

But if it was somebody a bit more rarefied .

And I understand that very well, even living in my pathetic, rarefied world."

The subtle is the essential; and it also means the most extremely rarefied.

Our mission is to protect public health, not debate rarefied issues in science."

Once the instructor had got us up, by lift, to where the air is rarefied, he disappeared.

All of their makeup was more rarefied, and fine-woven with light.

Up where the air is rarefied, and few venture.

The air is certainly different - whispering, rattling and highly rarefied.

Though, at times, the air you breathe is a bit rarefied."

Small, specialized; so rarefied it's above even the most classified crowds.

No matter how rarefied the leaf, it's at the mercy of the person preparing it.

"The idea was to offer an expensive, rarefied beauty treatment outside of its original context," she wrote.