Sentence examples for on sophistication from inspiring English sources

China's stock market is "short on sophistication and efficiency, and you won't see changes overnight".

Verdi's early operas are full of elemental vigor but can be frustratingly short on sophistication.

The apparent innocence of his pictures gave them a kind of imaginative grandeur that seemed beyond the reach of any art founded on sophistication.

His spirited embrace of American "diners, girls, cars" was subtly patronizing — which hardly offended Americans who, hellbent on sophistication, prided themselves on transcending their demotic roots.

Heavily bureaucratic, they were both staffed by former civil servants, long on sophistication and short on hard-nosed knowledge about how to make cars efficiently, and how to sell them.

The chain's creative director Steve Briar says: "If you take the very idea of a vintage store – found furniture, unwanted paint, lighting for function and low on sophistication – you see a sense of bohemian thrift retail.

This approach proposes that inquiry can be conducted at different levels of sophistication depending on students' developmental stages and prior experiences.

Customers mobility is dependent on the sophistication of their needs: sophisticated customers need to travel more to fulfill their needs.

It should go without saying that Duke; the University of California, Berkeley; and, next term, Harvard, are offering courses on the series, seminars focused not merely on the sophistication of its storytelling but also on its sociological and political perspicacity.

If it's short on geopolitical sophistication, it's long on attitude, which is fitting for a man who's partial to big-dog metaphors.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz suggested that "Timmons' characteristic style was a rolling, gospelly funk, perhaps longer on sheer energy than on harmonic sophistication".