Everywhere in the Village, free speech defined bohemian sophistication -- bounding from one subject to another, ostentatiously eclectic, touching on politics and art one moment and churning up neighborhood gossip the next, always edged with a sexual raciness that was taboo in polite society.
His reinventions of shopworn popular songs such as "Tea for Two", define jazz sophistication.
No one questions the fact that city youths can be very sophisticated, but it can be a narrow sophistication, defined by the often harsh demands of life on the streets and in the schoolyards.
Coward, whose plays defined brittle English sophistication in the years between the world wars, succeeded on the latter count, but not the former.
Then we use the estimate of the sophistication of these products to estimate the sophistication of the entire set of customers (that is, as defined before, the average sophistication of the restricted set of products they buy).
Their dissimilar expectations, resources and sophistication define how they approach America's coming-of-age obsession: applying to college.
Hence, we define the product sophistication index (PS) as: PS = − K → − μ ( K → ) σ ( K → ), where K → is the eigenvector of M ˜ p p ′ associated to the second largest eigenvalue, normalized as described above; μ ( K → ) is its average and σ ( K → ) its standard deviation.
Mr. McPherson has also become a very good jazz composer, his pieces built on the chords of standard songs and on forms of his own, defined by strong melodic content, harmonic sophistication and rhythmic alacrity.
Accordingly, we probed the level of sophistication with which Biology Fellows defined "thinking like a scientist" and whether their understanding of this topic influenced their learning strategies.
In this rarified company, "best" needs to be carefully defined in terms of speed, power, comfort, utility or sophistication.
