Sentences with phrase «cultural sophistication»

Clearly no other animal has anything approaching this level of cultural sophistication.

But as important as history - as - client - aid, in my view, is history as part of a broader cultural sophistication that lawyers should aim at.

Indifference to the question why science is not old, that is, why science did not arise in any of the great ancient cultures, is still that mark of cultural sophistication which it was in the early 1950s when, for instance, Einstein dismissed that question as unfathomable.

Rhoades's Oedipal associations between mother figures and erotic desire, and between fantasies of European cultural sophistication and American consumer capitalism, are not only general sociological observations but private confessions: needy, inadequate and not a little sad.

To paraphrase Ray Liotta's Henry Hill in Goodfellas, in this movie racists come with smiles, a reflection of gliberal America whose outward air of cultural sophistication is far more unsettling.

«In general, preserving the foreign pronunciation is thought of as a sign of high education and cultural sophistication,» says Boberg, although he says there are crowds where over-pronunciation is considered pretentious.

Physical health, prosperity, greater individual freedom, and cultural sophistication are the measures of these gains.

Violence and cultural sophistication may in fact have gone hand in hand in creating the first urban societies.

He knew that in academic preparation and cultural sophistication — not to mention in Graduate Record Exam scores — he lagged far behind the much more privileged classmates he'd have to compete with at the world - famous institution.

For all their cultural sophistication, the Sai children wonder if their lives as perennial outsiders made it impossible for them to feel at home anywhere.

How this tool is going to be used depends on its user's cultural sophistication or language skills.

The esteem in which Morandi was held in Italy is reflected in Federico Fellini's film La Dolce Vita (1960), in which his paintings are featured as the epitome of cultural sophistication.