The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
George Santayana
In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
Unknown
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Norman Mailer
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.
Camille Paglia
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
Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.
Mason Cooley
Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.
Mason Cooley
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
This agreement allows us to extend the breadth and sophistication of our integrated solutions to our customer's automatic material handling needs.
Claude Imbleau