The cognoscente begin the meal with a platter of Portuguese potatoes ($2).

Now, no true cognoscente would make such a mistake - these clubs are definitely passe.

The last line I heard from a cognoscente was "Isn't it too bad about Maureen?"

Object of the half-amused smirk from the quasi cognoscente.

Well, while questions like this are interesting to the political cognoscente, the rest of us will be worrying about paying the rent and feeding our families.

Anything less than a sow in season is, among truffle cognoscente, an inferior truffle.

Michael Caine is seen as an awkward wanna-be cognoscente in horn-rimmed glasses and a shock of ginger hair.

"The Cognoscente."

Literati and intelligentsia retain their snooty classical endings because it looks good on them and other pseudo- cognoscente.

Helping it all happen is a new ZF eight-speed automatic gearbox, a real cognoscente of how to shift for itself without anyone noticing.

The prolific Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) is an artist whom generations of cognoscente have loved to hate, or at least ignore.

By 1980, recombinant-DNA had declined as a burning public issue in the US and the character of remaining concern, now limited to the cognoscente, had shifted.

Watch him desperately trying for a "place in history" - one week it's as welfare reform maestro, the next week as race relations adept, then ecology maven, education cognoscente, etc.

The designs, by Steven Kokinis, a partner at Cognoscente, a year-old Los Angeles firm, were handmade in glowing maple and apple plywood and priced at "about" $3,500 each.

First, my country (and the 'civilization' it claims to represent) become chums with a reprehensible despot, our arms dealers, oilmen 'artists', leaders and cognoscente churn profits and have fun at his expense.

Mr. Barry traces technical words and usages from the originators, whether denizen of shop and classroom or cognoscente, who generally give the words a precise meaning, to the wider world, where they often suffer in the transition.

Most prominent is a cadre of self-appointed guides to the information age: Esther Dyson, computer cognoscente; John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and George Gilder, libertarian writer.

Vilayat Hussain Khan in his book "Sangeetangyon ke Sansmaran" has written: "There is no better connoisseur and cognoscente of music in Bihar than Kumar Shyamanand Singh"(free translation of Hindi text).

At the northern end of Central Park, where the landscape is rocky and wild, Charles Heuer and his daughter glided freely across the Lasker Memorial Skating Rink yesterday afternoon, sharing the ice with a dozen neighborhood cognoscente.

Linda Grana may be a critic of the first water, on the same level as Samuel Johnson and Dale Peck, but if the word "astonishing" does not appear as part of a review by a designated cognoscente in a mainstream publication, I do not buy the putatively astonishing product.