Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go. . . soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends.
There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary [Clinton] campaign staff.
The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall. . . The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn't do if your life depended on it.
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.
My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.
To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.
If your career is not predicated on just your physical beauty, you're able to project a sophistication. You can take sophisticated to your grave. You can be that worldly woman, that woman who looks beautiful dressed up.
I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. There are people with a little less sophistication who watch a lot of it, because we allow things to appeal to our baser instincts. But at the same moment, give me a little choice, and I'll make a better decision, because I have that ability too. And so does everybody else.
When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.
Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.
As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life
Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.
We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're at the beginning of a long period of adjustment that does not have a clear-cut terminal point, and in which our wisdom and sophistication and understanding has to be one of the key elements.
What I argue is that talk of knowledge plays an important role in theories within cognitive ethology. The idea is this. First, one sees cognitive ethologists arguing that we need to attribute propositional attitudes to some animals in order to explain the sophistication of their cognitive achievements.
Your true cosmopolitan is born, not made. He is very rare.
Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.
The driver of the power of intelligent systems is the knowledge the systems have about their universe of discourse, not the sophistication of the reasoning process the systems employ.
One of the things that I always think about is the emotional sophistication of animals and how much we're learning about the emotional sophistication of animals. If you're eating a pig, you're essentially eating the equivalent of a four-year-old human being.
