Yet that sense of exile also lends his songs a rare degree of sophistication.

He can seem almost haughty at times, and even his swearing has a rare degree of sophistication about it.

Our investigation showed the frightening degree of sophistication in the secret market in dodgy documents.

This suggests a new degree of sophistication.

How to achieve a degree of sophistication with so much bling?

What an amazing concept: raw fish presented as the height of sophistication.

We'd be sipping coffee from cups with plastic lids (the height of sophistication) and talking about our cool careers and hot boyfriends.

Truly, you are the height of sophistication.

It was an era when canapés were the height of sophistication — how smart to replace the chipolatas on sticks with quail eggs and pastry boats.

In the mid- 1960s both men transformed a simple musical form and took it to previously unimagined heights of sophistication and ambition.

In our intellectual sophistication we lose track of our animal selves.

Snidely ridiculed for not having the gnarled and tweedy values of the country or the pert, intellectual sophistication of the city.

Beneath the brilliance of the staging and the intellectual sophistication of the music was the ghost in the machine.

Work by the artist famed for his pioneering work with fluorescent light mixes a powerful simplicity with intellectual sophistication.

It became more or less an exercise in clever intellectual sophistication.

Rarely can so primitive a way of life have been evoked with such lavish technical sophistication.

Not so many years ago, a 10-speed bike was considered the height of technical sophistication.

Still, the level of technical sophistication astounds.

Technical sophistication in the mining operation did not ensure a low environmental impact.

Telepresence via video deploys greater technical sophistication and improved fidelity of both sight and sound than in traditional videoconferencing.

He never flagged and, every minute, had another story demonstrating the wisdom, technological sophistication and martial prowess of his ancestors.

It particularly impresses when exploring extant objects as evidence for technological sophistication and the circulation of goods.

What you lose out on in terms of texture or pleasurable packaging or technological sophistication, you make up for in sheer bang for your buck.

Contemporary automata continue this tradition with an emphasis on art, rather than technological sophistication.

But now that they are experiencing their own share of economic prosperity, technological sophistication, military power and political cohesion, they desire to revert to their ancestral cultures and religious beliefs.