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Yet persuading these canny, experienced buyers to sell is not for the faint-hearted.
He met a group of wealthy and cynical Jews, Americans, Belgians, and Germans, but he judged their sophistication painful and their affectations boring.
This chap is quite a smooth character.
Margaret, the main character of the novel, is a young, unworldly, bookish girl who is a bookseller in her father's shop and she loves reading stories and biographies most.
Women fall in love and want to nurture this unworldly, slightly vulnerable man and help him grow up.
Barry had his nose put out of joint by Lucy's aloof sophistication.
But he was nonetheless a worldly philosopher.
In Vietnam, for example, cigarettes are being peddled to urban women as a "sophisticated" pursuit.
I listen to their stories and relate to them, silently trying to work out whether their lives are more sophisticated than mine was at a similar age.
Even quite young children are socially sensitive beings and aware of such things.
He will grow sophisticated, and reject my enthusiasms and ideas as stupid.
Barely fifteen months later, it has become a cautionary tale of the pitfalls of international mergers and acquisitions.
Or maybe a wealthy local wanted to show off his worldly sophistication.
This chap is quite a smooth character.
Because like Adam and Eve in the first creation story, Noah is told to be fruitful and multiply.
The sophisticated school doctor had a sour temper.
They look chic and sophisticated.
Yet in one sense, he was entirely worldly.
This second creation proves to be not much better.
I'd rather deal with a simple man than a sophisticated man.
But the Forster in both these books comes across as covertly sophisticated.
Lily is a woman of the world.
Her rather tough and worldly exterior hides a very soft and sensitive heart.
He was different from anyone I had known, very worldly, everything that Duane was not.
At 15, he was more worldly than his older cousins who lived in the country.