in the shimmering heat, the rarefied air, found that this made sense to him

Monopoly capitalism and the fascist state could not tolerate this autonomous sphere of life that represented a potential threat to the existing order, so they did to rarefied bourgeois culture what they did to the family

the rarefied, lonely demographic of woman too successful for love

I encountered him almost entirely in the rarefied realms of discourse

Wong is able to follow the implications of her research into the more rarefied realms of cultural theory and philosophical aesthetics

In which some rarefied notion of ‘civility’ is prized above all else

Anastasia recognizes that she's destined to abandon her ordinary, middle-class life in favor of the rarefied veal pen of the modern power elite.

These are rarified success stories

access to the rarefied discourses of gender identity

Nabokov’s sentences go on for lines and sometimes pages, and his highfalutin diction sprouts naturally from his polyglot education and rarefied background

What they share most is a desire not to be cast down, down from the realm of the rarefied air, back to where they came from.

this is an increasingly irrelevant and rarefied end, consigned to the specialists