Sentence examples for personal sophistication from inspiring English sources

His artistry and personal sophistication made him a respected colleague and good friend to all who knew him.

"Personally, I'm not so concerned with demands," he noted, with a somewhat studied casualness, as if his willingness to suspend the question were an afterthought or a sign of a merely personal sophistication.

In the matter of personal sophistication, on the other hand, it was a very different story: when, having carried off the first prize in an international singing competition in Geneva (1947), she received a telephone call from the director of La Scala asking her to travel at once to Milan for an audition, she refused on the grounds that she had to go straight home to her parents.

Jane had a unique personal style and sophistication that led her to a career in fashion.

Van Gundy, the former Knicks and Houston Rockets coach, is an intriguing blend of personal loopiness and basketball sophistication.

Every prodigy is a chimera of such mastery and childishness, and the contrast between musical sophistication and personal immaturity can be striking.

My investigation was based on the assumption that all participants in the encounter shared the same stock of knowledge about the functioning of the human body (microcosm) and its intimate relationship to the wider natural world (macrocosm), albeit to different degrees of rhetorical sophistication and personal practical experience.

The simplicity of the dress was offset by the myriad ways of wearing it, a sophistication achieved by personal expression of the wearer.

Lally's innate strength when impersonating rural characters – and this was his singular genius – came from the sophistication of his personal background.

[Page A18.] Mr. Greenspan's thesis, which is not accepted by all traditional economists, is that increases in personal wealth and the growing sophistication of financial markets have allowed Americans -- individually and as a nation -- to borrow much more today than might have seemed manageable 20 years ago.

The end user brings his/her personal characteristics and level of sophistication with computer use (depth, breadth, and finesse of knowledge and skills).