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«Bridget: My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.»
Author: Bridget Jones's Diary
| Keywords:
Bridget, mum, pickle, pickles, sophistication, toothpick, toothpicks
«I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.»
«There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.»
«For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.»
Author: Hal Borland
| Keywords:
arrogance, bud, denial, falters, opening, sophistication, tuft, tufts
«Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
is, simplicities, simplicity, sophistication, The, The Ultimate, ultimate
«Italian wine was something rough and red that came in a straw-covered flask with a candle stuck in its neck, [the empty bottle] was an unmistakable badge of sophomore sophistication.»
Author: Nancy Harmon Jenkins
| About:
Wine
| Keywords:
badge, badges, bottle, flask, Italian, red wine, sophistication, sophomore, sophomores, straw, stuck, unmistakable, wine bottle
«The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
centrality, conceptual, electrified, electrify, electrifying, hugely, Literary Art, literary criticism, modern history, overestimate, overestimated, overestimates, scholarship, self love, sign language, sophistication, sorely, undervalue, undervalued, undervalues, undervaluing, visual, visual image
«Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.»
«Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work of such sophistication, wit, and beauty that it increasingly seems to me that cartoon evolution is working backward. Comic strips are moving toward a primordial goo rather than away from it . . . Not only can comics be more than we're getting today. but the comics already have been more than we're getting today.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
amazingly, backward, cartoon, cartoonist, cartoonists, cartoons, comic, comics, comic strip, Comic strips, early on, goo, increasingly, medium, primordial, sophistication
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