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But where Clinton, when cornered, used to fall back on his ineffable brand of legalistic sophistry ("It all depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"), and thereby alienate even his own supporters, Dean acts the part of the brusque doctor, summoned from his country surgery to attend a grave case of dementia in Washington DC, and mops up votes with even his most "impolitic" performances.

But the record doesn't just sound like a throwback -- it is definitely contemporary high-quality soul music with a musical sophistication that will continue to keep it off radio.

Basic play, elaborate play, crude play, sophisticated play, violent play, casual play.

Through sophisticated brainwashing techniques, they deliberately programmed her with task-specific alters, who, as in The Manchurian Candidate, would carry out assignments—usually murder, sometimes suicide—at the bidding of the cult.

From two years in Genoa, Giuseppe carried home a newly sophisticated political awareness, which he channeled to his brothers, some of whom enrolled with him in the nascent Italian Socialist party.

His explanation for the invasion of Czechoslovakia was far more sophisticated than that given to the Soviet public.

As well as initiating an unprecedented series of collaborative histories for publication in the West, the SVR has produced a number of less sophisticated works for the Russian market.

The winery has also installed sophisticated technology systems, beefed up its sales force and improved its visibility by targeting sales to top restaurants.

Kente International, the African arts boutique in the Highlands that boasts an upscale, sophisticated clientele, recently began offering appointments with Okomfo Enyo, a priest and mystic in the Akan religion of Ghana.

"This is sophisticated, abstract and intellectual, not primitive.

That's because regular people are, unlike elites, ill-informed, unsophisticated, and corrupt -- easily bought off by money, narrow self-interest, and demagogic appeals.

In a dingy south London flat, a retired communist bus driver opens the door to a sophisticated and beautiful woman who turns out to be his stepdaughter.

No matter how sophisticated the zoning laws enacted in any city or town, no matter how nuanced a local building code, a uniformity of basic rules cripples taxpayers confronting change.

Her illness broke something in him, and, following a pattern that we can observe in many writers who go from good to great, he threw away the sophistication he had so strenuously acquired in his twenties and returned to the past.

"The sophisticated retailers have figured that out.


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