I'll admit it, the grunge trend doesn't really speak to me. I get why other people like it, but it's just not my style. Don't get me wrong, I love layering, but I like it when it is done with a little more polish and sophistication.

I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales.

The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.

With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.

Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.

I find those sophisticated girls were wrong-it was much easier to be brittle at the age of twenty when wisdom is easily come by.

Sophistication is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.