An air of bright and unforced sophistication pervaded the music as well, from the opening Lilies to the taut rhythm of All Your Gold and the simple, glistening chords of Laura, a duet between Khan and her pianist rather than an understated full band piece like most of the others.
Tanya Summers, 45, said her daughter Sarah Odessa Saunders, 11, was always bright but had acquired sophistication and feminine deportment.
The first Thali's higher prices are legitimized by a cuisine that speaks a little brighter, and with a sophistication and subtlety of flavor often missing at Thali Too, at least for the moment.
For years its name conjured images of bright beaches mixed with European sophistication.
Ms. Krall is the pop-jazz world's brightest hope for a singer to carry on the sultry sophistication of Peggy Lee.
At the best schools, like Pyongyang No. 1 Secondary School, the students are extraordinarily bright and they conversed with us in fluent English, with far more sophistication than on my first visit to the same school in 1989.
He's got a raspy, informal vocal style, which places him somewhere between David Gray and Coldplay's Chris Martin, and this time he shows a knack for bright, surprising pop textures that, at their best, aim for the pop sophistication of Paul Simon and Sting.
He described Mr. Gumbs as "a very bright guy with sound business judgment" who has brought a new level of business sophistication to the powwow.
Screen comedy was elemental before it acquired pretentions of sophistication and lost much of its zest under a weight of tarnished bright sayings, and perhaps we haven't changed so much after all.In fact, "The Lady Takes a Sailor" runs downhill when it has to depend on dialogue.
Instead he chose New York, reflecting its energy and sophistication with crisp tailoring, a black leather coat banded in taxi-bright yellow, and a silver chain-beaded gown as cosmopolitan as the Chrysler building.
