Cairo's more politically sophisticated cafés echo with talk of Algeria two decades back.
Even the novelty penguin sweater echoed sophisticated white bib-front necklines.
Since 2005, when she recorded "When I Look in Your Eyes," a swinging but sophisticated CD with echoes of her childhood influences Laura Nyro and Ella Fitzgerald, at Bennett Studios in Englewood, "everything has been snowballing," she said.
It may seem as though Vickers's sophisticated fictions, with their echoes of EM Forster, Penelope Fitzgerald and Muriel Spark, are a million miles away from the barking mad improvisations of Arthur Bradford, the wild inventions of George Saunders or the hipsters of the McSweeney's stable, but I think there is a common thread here: unpredictability.
The company has already developed sophisticated listening technology for Amazon Echo, the voice-controlled speaker that allows users to interact with a virtual assistant called Alexa.
Advanced audio capabilities Audio processing capabilities include sophisticated acoustic noise suppression and echo cancellation, beam formation to identify the current sound source, and integration with the Windows speech recognition API.
But the execution, which keeps movement to a minimum so that small gestures speak loudly, gives the show a sustained tautness, echoed by the sophisticated spareness of Zaniz Jakubowski and Kevin Price's set and James Vermeulen's lighting.
The elegance of its white buildings echoes northern Germany's sophisticated and wealthy past.
The show really takes off with the rebellious first-act finale, Take a Stand, which has echoes of the more sophisticated Matilda the Musical.
Those signals are now being investigated with the help of a British naval vessel, HMS Echo, which is equipped with sophisticated sound-locating equipment.
