In this context, the report on Habyarimana's plane is the latest in a yearlong string of diplomatic and political moves that show the new Rwandan government achieving a level of sophistication, skill, and effectiveness in commanding international respect that has rarely, if ever, been seen before in Africa.
I did not know that Bemelmans, who drew all the pictures, showed in New York galleries and created New Yorker and Vogue covers, though the cosmopolitan sophistication, skill and lightness of touch in the illustrations in fact makes that no surprise.
Indeed, with barely a right angle or a standard piece of steel or glass to be found, the building shows off the sophistication and skill of Lord Foster's construction -- skill so highly developed that British architectural critics were stunned when New York failed to embrace his proposal for ground zero.
These vary in scope, accuracy, and method according to the purpose, degree of sophistication, and skill of the peoples using them, as do the calendrical systems with which they are inextricably bound up.
These tensions are not, in fact, irreconcilable, but they require a degree of sophistication and skill to manage, as well as the establishment of particular cultural mores.
Ironically, because of our technical sophistication, drawing skills, and lack of angst, our art was often considered suspect.
The systems of chronology used to record human history, which are closely related to calendar systems, vary in scope, accuracy, and method according to the purpose, degree of sophistication, and skills of the peoples using them.
Celebrating Ellington's seventieth birthday, in 1969, Ralph Ellison recalled what it was like when, in his youth, in the thirties, the Ellington band came to Oklahoma City "with their uniforms, their sophistication, their skills; their golden horns, their flights of controlled and disciplined fantasy," all of it like "news from the great wide world".
Various RT-AQF techniques with varying degrees of sophistication and skills are described comparatively.
These new software features, on the other hand, go a ways toward making sure you're able to take advantage of that sophistication, regardless of skill level. .
The Minoans' comparative sophistication and maritime skills kept them protected and at peace for 1,500 years.
