Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.
For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.
Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to dare or take risks in life.
I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.
To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it.
Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.
I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.
Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.
Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.
Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.
The so-called sophisticated theologians, especially ones who are very nice, like Rowan Williams and Jonathan Sacks, you sometimes don't quite know where you are with them. You feel that when you attack them, you're attacking a wet sponge.
My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.
The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.
I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do.
But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
I think the camera has got to be motivated. You can't have things arrived at gratuitously. Everything has to have an organic function, but the more comfortable I've become and the more imaginative and sophisticated and the more exploratory I've become at the medium, the more I've subtly deviated away from that in various ways.
His home life is as ordered and complex and sophisticated as his work life. You don't find creations like this anymore. The Leopard comes to mind - this tale of a glorious, lost Italy. That's Valentino.
Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career.
Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.
I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals.