The Jesuits were also famous as religious philosophers and sophisticated thinkers.

His contribution to art and to the intellectual discourse of the 1960's has made him one of this century's most original and sophisticated thinkers.

Both were anticipated well in advance by sophisticated thinkers in both investment and government circles.

Burns was a sophisticated political thinker about representation, the origin and limits of political authority, and the need for liberty and equality.

Not, he hastens to add, because she was a less sophisticated thinker, but because she was a writer of uncommon decency and lucidity.

In part this is because Mr. McKibben is not a sophisticated thinker on economic matters.

It can read and write-that's how it realized David sold us out, it found his discarded instructions-but it's not a sophisticated thinker.

Mr. Van Valkenburgh is a splashy form maker but not a sophisticated thinker.

Colonel Jones is a sophisticated thinker, and he understands that legitimacy is not something you shake out of a bottle.

Teens and tweens are sophisticated thinkers, and they're notoriously moody - which means they'll find even more reasons to challenge your authority, says Stern.