Sophistication Quotes

This is about beer grown up. This is about tapping into mainstream sophistication, and that will resonate equally with men and women.
Peter Marino

The clothes are very sexy in a sophisticated way. It's not overt. They celebrate the female form without being too revealing.
Cheryl Hall Lindsay

Computers are sophisticated. In order for me to keep up with what my kids are doing I have to be a little more sophisticated than them, and this gives me a chance to do it.
Cheryll Cox

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
Charles M. Allen

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
Oliver Joseph Lodge

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Christopher Hampton

If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.
Fritjof Capra

They have reached a level of organization and sophistication that we have not seen previously. They have become incredibly savvy.
Michael Ware

These guys actually have some degree of sophistication as far as practicing their trade. They are becoming proficient in the use of their weapons.
Ron Holvey

The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.
M. E. W. Sherwood

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
John Lothrop Motley

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

Regardless of the quality or sophistication of rivals, the 207 will be another successful car and it will be the top selling car in the segment.
Peter Schmidt

(Kids') level of sophistication is quite elevated.
Ray Radelia

These startup groups suggest an increasing sophistication in the immigration debate.
Mark Krikorian

It provides a means to obtaining a sophisticated, single view of a customer.
Bill Roth

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed.

Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

The sophistication of this tunnel equals the sophistication of the criminal organization.
John Fernandez

We see an adversary that ... continues to develop some sophistication on very deadly and increasingly precise standoff-type weapons.
Lawrence Rita







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