Sentence examples for mark of sophistication from inspiring English sources

"It is as if it were a mark of sophistication for us to shun the language of morality in discussing the problems of mankind," he once recalled.

"The mark of sophistication and savoir-faire in this future will be the grace and flexibility with which one accepts one's role and makes the most of what it offers".

I've dated smokers, and when I watch old movies, the sight of an artfully dangled cigarette still works on me the way it's intended to: as a mark of sophistication and decadence, one of the few public acts with no purpose other than pleasure.

"Pierrot le Fou" belongs to a period when, for Americans, seeing subtitled films was a mark of sophistication and urbanity, unlike today, when subtitles all but automatically banish a film to a few courageous independent theaters and the not-for-profit circuit of festivals and museums.

The extraordinary quality of music he'd supplied for each of these shows did leave an impression, making it a mark of sophistication in Kennedy-era smart circles to at least know Harold Arlen's name.

With the CCTV headquarters, Koolhaas has decided that the mark of true sophistication for China is to look rough.

By the end of the decade, bottle service, once a mark of downtown sophistication, had come to be viewed as the province of rubes.

The development of the wine industry had long been treated as a mark of civilisational sophistication, a habit that continued into the 1980s.

Maxfield is good enough to provide these, alongside an impressive collection of first-edition out-of-print art books; some stunning examples of vintage modern furniture (a compulsion so addictive that Maxfield recently opened a furniture annex across the street); and two other elements that have come to symbolize the mark of true sophistication for me: sex toys and human remains.

The second said the best color and freshest flavor were in the eyes of the beholder and that the hint of bitter flavor added by that cooking with that inner skin was actually a mark of culinary sophistication.

Smoking is no longer an acceptable sign of sophistication.