The taste for sweet dried fruits mixed with meat and wine and exuding the heady waft of spices began with the Norman invasion of Britain; it was part of a flourishing in the culinary arts across Europe that marked a sophistication in the kitchen unseen since the Romans.
Managers emphasize the importance of "being fast on your feet"; always being well organized; giving slick presentations complete with color slides; giving the appearance of knowledge even in its absence; and possessing a subtle, almost indefinable sophistication, marked especially by an urbane, witty, graceful, engaging, and friendly demeanor.
Certainly sophistication marks the contributions of Grisha Bruskin whose work often concerns, as wall information says, the incompatibility of the various elements of Russian life.
If you lose a panadería and gain a Panera, is that really a mark of sophistication?
I mean, if you lose a panadería and gain a Panera, is that really a mark of sophistication?
"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.
Once a mark of sophistication and glamour, the shade of your tan can reveal much about who you are or aspire to be.
"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.
"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". In other words, since we are all entrepreneurs first – and citizens second, we might as well make the most of it.
"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.
