Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticated... story is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Preschool children are more sophisticated than toddlers.... Your goal as a parent is to nurture the child's desire to be a self-st...arter and help him begin to adopt some of your attitudes and values, but without humiliating the child or suppressing his newfound assertivenessLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A partner evoked by sophisticated electric brain stimulation could be as real and much more satisfying than the boy or girl next d...oor.... All the stars in Hollywood living or dead are there for your pleasure. Sated with superstars, you can lay Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Isis, Madame Pompadour, or Aphrodite. You can get fucked by Pan, Jesus Christ, Apollo or the Devil himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now... you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking i...n tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the p...ast, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are so... sure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the i...narticulate poignancy of the peasant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am not... sure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »