Sentence examples for lacking in sophistication from inspiring English sources

But Russia's financial system is young, small for the size of the economy and lacking in sophistication and resources.

It is an unrefined piece, lacking in sophistication or subtlety, but it sets up the format for his freestanding arrangements of figures and objects in years to come.

Through the end of the 19th century, Britain and Europe represented history and tradition and the sort of society of manners that Americans like Henry James felt that the United States still lacked, whereas America represented a kind of primeval Arcadia, vigorous and naïve, but lacking in sophistication.

London's reputation declined in the United States in the 1920s when a brilliant new generation of postwar writers made the prewar writers seem lacking in sophistication, but his popularity has remained high throughout the world, especially in Russia, where a commemorative edition of his works published in 1956 was reported to have been sold out in five hours.

Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, who worked for several years as a cook in a Lima restaurant in the 1970s, has exported his own brand of Peruvian-Japanese food through his Nobu chain.In this section The kamikazes of poverty Now bring on the doers An amber light Disarming, bit by bit Just add spice ReprintsIn such a poor country, food has traditionally been robust, spicy but lacking in sophistication.

This year's contest has been overshadowed by a decision to include among suggestions the word feminist (editors say they were simply critiquing the lazy way celebrity journalists use it), but also featured are influencer and – in their newest senses – basic (lacking in sophistication) and disrupt (to shake up sleepy industries, generally with the help of new technology).

But what the commercial lacks in sophistication it makes up for in audacity.

What the "sixes" may lack in sophistication, they make up for in sheer human drama and raw emotion.

Like the four girls at its center, this fresh-scrubbed, eager-to-please film makes up in charm for what it lacks in sophistication.

A bowl of chilli with pitta bread was filling, ruggedly tasty stuff, and what it lacked in sophistication, it made up for by being £3.50-a-bowl.

What the debut album from all-female Spanish quartet Hinds – known as Deers until a year ago – might lack in sophistication is more than made up for with charm.