What's the difference between sophisticated and straightforward?

Sophisticated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Sophisticate
  • (a.) Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
  • (2) A developing sophistication on the part of both children and parents, coupled with a rapidly expanding recognition of the need to minimize the amount of physical and psychological trauma that a child has to experience, has led to a growing use of premedication agents for children.
  • (3) The initial defect can be directly measured by glucose clamp and other sophisticated techniques; the clinical syndrome may be derived from a network of related variables known to be associated with reduced insulin action.
  • (4) While simple assays of complex I activity are unlikely to be useful in the preclinical detection of Parkinson's disease, other more sophisticated physical-chemical approaches including detection of free radical damage may have utility.
  • (5) This is not some sophisticated, Westminstery battle, but a life-and-death, misery-or-decency choice about the very basics of life for hundreds of thousands of older British people.
  • (6) While the high sophistication subjects rated the interpretation as accurate across validity conditions, the low sophistication subjects rated the interpretation according to the validity instructions they received.
  • (7) Lateralization may be an expression of reflex constraints bound initially to the infant's tonic-neck posture, with later development less reflex-patterned during the acquisition of more sophisticated information-processing strategies.
  • (8) A simple multiband volume control is expected to provide much of the benefit of more sophisticated systems without the need for separate estimation of input speech and noise spectra.
  • (9) What’s imperative from an organizational standpoint, he added, is “understanding where voters are, what their concerns are, and building a sophisticated operation around that.
  • (10) The laws of functioning applicable to these approaches are those coming from liberal and planified economical theories while health planning has developed more and more sophisticated and convincing methodologies.
  • (11) Therefore, controlled hypotension, being a sophisticated technique, requires handling by an experienced anesthetist well aware of contraindications and the need for adequate monitoring for prevention of tissue ischemia.
  • (12) However, a homemade pipe bomb thrown at a police patrol in north Belfast earlier this year was described as of a new, sophisticated variety that the PSNI had not seen before.
  • (13) While numerous studies on infant perception have demonstrated the infant's ability to discriminate sounds having different frequencies, little research has evaluated more sophisticated pitch perception abilities such as perceptual constancy and perception of the missing fundamental.
  • (14) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
  • (15) When multiple database systems are present, a flexible front end can provide sophisticated querying capabilities that bridge the systems, while hiding the complexities of the multiple systems from the user.
  • (16) This validity coefficient turned out to be so high (r = 0.967) that it does not seem necessary to adopt a more sophisticated method, despite a few demonstrable shortcomings of the one in use.
  • (17) The comparison of drug responder and non-responder group has also been made more meaningful by the availability of more reliable methods of assessing clinical phenomena, more sophisticated diagnostic models and the introduction of other biological measures.
  • (18) The environment in the intensive therapy units (ITUs) has thus become increasingly sophisticated with the use of highly specialised equipment.
  • (19) Attempts to save parts of teeth go back 100 years or more, but it is the increased predictability of success of endodontic therapy and the increased sophistication of periodontal treatment that have given us the means to save molars with furcation problems that, otherwise, would be lost.
  • (20) The monitoring equipment gets more sophisticated and easier to use month by month.

Straightforward


Definition:

  • (a.) Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank.
  • (adv.) In a straightforward manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
  • (2) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
  • (3) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
  • (4) On examples from their own practice the authors draw attention to the that the diagnosis and treatment of this disease is not always as straightforward as might appear from the literature.
  • (5) The IAP technique was straightforward to perform, it yielded quick results, and was highly reproducible, provided that a standardised short fixation period of two and a half hours was used.
  • (6) Modern anesthetic and surgical techniques have made the operation much safer and more straightforward.
  • (7) The fact that the leave campaign are getting things as straightforward as this wrong should call into judgment the bigger argument about leaving the EU.” He said out campaigners were trying to persuade people to vote for Brexit solely on the back of an issue “that is not true”.
  • (8) If the observed odds ratios in the data follow this pattern, the model-predicted odds ratios will be accurate, and the meaning of the odds ratio for each risk factor will be straightforward.
  • (9) The stomach must need some respite from the cold shock of missing relatively straightforward opportunities.
  • (10) An intradermal skin test with 1 : 100 dilution of 2-5 per cent thiopentone was positive and subsequent anaesthesia without thiopentone was straightforward.
  • (11) Inside the building, the gallery spaces are curiously straightforward.
  • (12) A different, more straightforwardly anti-cuts message could perhaps consolidate a left-vote in a PR system, but is unlikely to work for a party seeking to lead.
  • (13) Written partnership agreements, employment contracts and related documents may seem to complicate what appears to be a straightforward arrangement, and can make a close relationship somewhat more impersonal.
  • (14) Use of the proportional-response photon counter makes the measurement straightforward and more accurate.
  • (15) A straightforward information-processing model describes the mental processes that are used in deciding whether a sentence is true or false of an accompanying picture.
  • (16) The surest sign of malign intention in financial dealings is a failure to be straightforward about the fees.
  • (17) With attention to detail, prosthesis sizing is straightforward using intraoperative determination of corporeal girth and total corporeal length.
  • (18) However the advent of computer-based image analysers offers a more straightforward, although less direct, method of making such measurements.
  • (19) A straightforward decision-making process was found among males, but more complicated influences exist for females.
  • (20) Woodward maintained that it would be simple to thrash out a "straightforward commercial settlement".