We call this mind-set worldly, which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as "experienced in life, sophisticated, practical". Finally, action, reflection, and collaboration, as well as worldliness, must subscribe to a certain rationality or logic; they rely on an analytic mind-set, too.
Many data warehouse systems have been developed recently, yet data warehouse practice is not sufficiently sophisticated for practical usage.
Should we not, then, be encouraging our managers to be more worldly, more experienced in life, in both sophisticated and practical ways?
A sophisticated and practical risk screen would follow a tiered approach to due diligence, increasing rigor progressively based on red flags.
At once sophisticated and practical, Writing in Biology advises students on composing research articles, literature reviews, oral presentations, and other key biology genres.
Basic goal is to emphasize the benefits of sophisticated but practical numerical model in comparison with the simpler and inadequate models for prediction of a real structural behavior of jib cranes.
So far, I have gathered that my date was neat and clean, modern and tech-savy, sophisticated yet practical, health-conscious, slightly uptight, and best of all, already mad at me.
The New York showroom, Mr. Bianchi said represents the philosophy behind what the company sells: sophisticated, well-designed practical products at a good price.
She has applied that sophisticated thought to practical ends, working with Play Rugby USA, which takes the game into the inner cities, and coaching at Rikers Island, the notorious jail in New York's East river.
This piece of sophisticated but highly practical advice is from his book, "Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms for Today's Investor," which is ostensibly a dictionary-glossary of financial terms but is actually considerably more useful than a reference for occasional consultation (Houghton Mifflin, third edition, $13.95).
In high-studio-era Hollywood, the personal element of movies was merely implied, infused into commercial productions through the sophisticated wiles and practical ruses of studio directors — and critics, above all, were the people who recognized it, said so, and, in the process, definitively changed the relationship of viewers to movies.
