Example Sentences

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Like the oversophisticated Hellenists in Cavafy’s poem, they have been secretly waiting for the barbarians all their lives.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 19, 2015

This urge has, it turns out, resulted in a series of cunning traps laid for the oversophisticated.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2013

He would build squadrons of nimble F-16 jet fighters instead of expensive, oversophisticated F-18s.

From Time Magazine Archive

One new short story writer has appeared this year whose five published stories open a new field to fiction and have a human richness of feeling and imagination rare in our oversophisticated literature.

From The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Perhaps Josh's more than half-right and I'm oversophisticated.

From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by Phillips, David Graham