Alice, with the sophistication that young women have apparently always had except in fiction, put up her hand reprovingly to Ten Eyck.
She was disappointed in his reception of her offers of peace--she had been incapable of appreciating the attitude his sophistication was bound to take up in the face of such an outburst.
He looked upon his brother as a thwarted romantic, whose sophistication had debarred him from finding a natural outlet in religion.
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
I should think, myself, that they are of very varying degrees of value, and peculiarly liable to unintentional sophistication by the medium.
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
His sophistication was all gone; he was just a small boy, heartily ashamed of himself and ready to cry.
The mask of sophistication had slipped off his face; he was pleasantly in the control of a gentle mood, a mood that erased the last vestige of protective coloring.
Flappers with very short skirts and every known specimen of leg added to the tragic-comedy of a thoroughfare in which provincialism and sophistication were like oil and water.
I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt the pose of a moral freedom to which they are by no means entitled by their intelligences.
The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy.
When the moment of sophistication came to George Willard his mind turned to Helen White, the Winesburg banker's daughter.
If a lack of freedom in method and in choice of subject is one reason for the sophistication of our short story, then the editorial policy of American magazines is a legitimate field for speculation.
There are curious signs, especially in what we may call the literature of New York, of a growing sophistication that sneers at sentiment and the sentimental alike.
As we possess it, the myth has undoubtedly been influenced by successive waves of advancing native thought, but no sophistication by European influence is discernible.
It is possible to discern in the myth of Hel as we know it a later sophistication of the original, most probably due, as we have said, to Christian influence.
Whether unfathomable stupidity or equally unfathomable sophistication lay at the bottom of all this--the business was a wretched one.
Things are pretty much mixed up in this world," Cora went on, speaking with that good-natured sophisticationwhich appealed to Amy as worldly.
She wondered ifsophistication was increasing in the world, if there was more of it in Freeport than there used to be.
Bacon's focus of attention on the substance of poetry is in keeping with his attack on mere sophistication of style in rhetoric.
As time went on, the over-refinement and literary sophistication of the florid school of oratory became more and more powerful.
XVIII Actually, I dare say the process of one's sophistication was gradual enough.
For some days, at least, and it may have been for longer, Mr. William Smith became the mentor to whom I owed the most of such urban sophistication as I acquired.
It has more of sophistication than most: the Virgin not only recognizes the honour, but the doom, which the painter himself foreshadows in the predella, where Christ is seen rising from the grave.
Every phase of sophistication was manifested in that glittering audience when the curtain rose and the sensational theme was introduced.
Untutored in the ways of men, without trace of sophistication or cant, unblemished as she moved among the soiled vessels about her, shining with celestial radiance in this unknown, moldering town so far from the world's beaten paths.
The Sophistication or Eclecticism of the Present Age.
Though it may have overlooked elementary truths, and have sought to combine irreconcilable principles, it cannot be charged with lack of sophistication or subtlety.
If he lacked the air of aristocratic calm which gave distinction to Judge Bannister, he supplied in its place a sophistication due to his contact with a world which moved faster than the Judge's world in Virginia.
He doffed his sophisticationas he doffed his formal clothes.
But sophistication is in the theoretical sphere exactly what chicanery is in the practical.
But a perfect gem of philosophical mere abstract reasoning passing into decided sophistication is the following reasoning of the Platonist, Maximus of Tyre, which I shall quote, as it is short: "Every injustice is the taking away of a good.
Hence this mere abstract reasoning differs only in degree from sophistication strictly so called.
The Barber brace represents the ultimate sophistication of a tool, achieved through an expanded industrial technology rather than by an extended or newly found use for the device itself.
Roubo suggests the steady sophistication of the art in a plate showing the special planes and irons required for fine molding and paneling (fig.
Henry Ward Beecher, impressed by the growing sophistication of the toolmakers, described the hand tool in a most realistic and objective manner as an "extension of a man's hand.
He gave her his address in East Sixty-seventh Street, only a few doors from Fifth Avenue, but her social sophistication was not up to the point of seeing the significance of this.
Letty's own lack of sophistication kept her a child when she was nearly twenty-three.
They were big, quiet, expectant fellows, with less sophistication and polemic than their American counterparts, less stolid aggressiveness than their parallels in England, if they have parallels there.
I think I prefer the sophistication of chimney-pots," she replied.
Superior, that I too have laughed the laugh of sophistication at enthusiasm, that I too know enough to consider vehemence amusing and strenuous effort ill-bred, that doubtless I shall do so again.
The Chinese language and the Confucian inheritance of ideological sophistication lead to clarity, pragmatism, and practicality.
The Confucians were intellectually indifferent to natural science and economically unfriendly to technological change; China, unsurpassed for political sophistication and deliberate social order, was immobilized by an ancient success.
I would specifically except, however, from this criticism the work of three writers, at least, whose sophistication is the embodiment of a new American technique.
When its sophistication is complete, it is the sophistication of English rather than of American literature, and is derivative rather than original, for the most part, in its criticism of life.
Their lack of literary sophistication is part of their charm, and the calculated ruggedness of the author's style is a faithful reflection of his barren physical background.
