On April 29th, Apple released Tiger, its latest operating system. The cognoscenti queued for several blocks around Apple's flagship store in San Francisco to get it.
Such a sullen response is testimony, say Europe's cognoscenti, to “enlargement fatigue”.
Mooted candidates include David Miliband, the foreign secretary, and his brother Ed, the energy secretary, scions of the north London cognoscenti with a tendency to speak in abstract nouns.
Middle East cognoscenti were speculating furiously ahead of the president's speech at the State Department on Thursday over whether he would utter them or fudge.
Above thellos, where the cognoscenti prowl, prices reach six figures for perpetual calendars, tourbillons and minute repeaters.
Poland's embrace of Ms Bartana's ingenuity is regarded as a sign of graceful nationhood and highly appreciated by art-world cognoscenti.
She has an international reputation among film cognoscenti.
a restaurant favoured by the cognoscenti