Sentence examples for sophisticate from inspiring English sources

Mr Koizumi is no sophisticate in foreign affairs, but in his four years in office he has achieved a steady expansion of Japan's constitutionally limited military role, for example by sending troops to Iraq, and a steady deterioration in Japan's relationship with two of its neighbours, China and South Korea.

Just like Yevgeny Primakov, a former IMEMO director who is now prime minister of Russia, Mr Simes has personal experience of how it feels for a multilingual sophisticate of Jewish origin to work for two sets of tough, capricious masters with more than a twinge of anti-Semitism.

A bloody mary in the departure lounge and you can consider yourself a sophisticate; four pints of lager and you are a lout.

No such stain sullies the record of Tyndale.Tyndale was not a charming sophisticate like More.

Most of the  millions upon millions of people who live in high cost metropolitan areas note that there are some 60 million people living in the relatively high cost metroplex between Washington and Boston aren't doing so because they merely want to interact with smart people and play sophisticate.

But where Conrad's Marlow is a dreamer, unembarrassed by the mysteries he offers his audience (both real and fictional), Freyn is a self-conscious sophisticate, an ironist, snagging himself on his listener, whose own affectless info-tech voice we hear at intervals struggling to comprehend.

Teen-friendly sound track High School Musical 2, West's Graduation, pop-country band Rascal Flatts Still Feels Goodd, jazzy sophisticate Norah Jones's Not Too Late, and rock band Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight all fared well.

Duke then became the star of the popular TV sitcom The Patty Duke Show (1963 66), in which she had dual roles as "identical cousins"—Patty, a typical American teenager who loves rock and roll, and the staid Scottish sophisticate Cathy, who prefers a minuet.

Peter Coleman-Wright's Papageno may suggest a sophisticate playing a simpleton, but no praise could be too high for the feisty Three Ladies, the spooky Three Spirits, Allan Clayton's eloquent Tamino, Lucy Crowe's sublime Pamina, and Ambur Braid's brilliantly-conceived Queen of the Night.

Fifteen-year-old Oliver suffers from romantic yearnings, routine bullying at school, a gloomy home life and the acute self-consciousness of a precocious sophisticate.

Tritschler's naturally high, understated Irish tenor is sinuous and sweet, while Oropesa's ardent, dewy soprano makes "Traurigkeit ward mir zum Lose" the high point of the work and delivers "Marten aller Arten" with ease while being showered with furs, silks, jewels and shoes (shoes!) by Simon Thorpe's dry sophisticate of a Pasha.