Our objects are not those of mere dilettanti, although for my part I should blame no association which boldly inscribed "dilettanti" on its breezy flag. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
Seminars, workshops, writing groups, etc, are more the realm of the dilettanti. From Wordnik.com. [Hobbyists] Reference
All the dilettanti were immersed in the great national question of its shape and features. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829] Reference
After having thus puzzled the dilettanti, it transpired that it was written by Sir Herbert Croft, Bart. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
The public is of the same way of thinking; and hence its general respect for professionals and its distrust of dilettanti. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Literature] Reference
Not that we should have consideration for all that passes for severe culture and exquisite sensitiveness among musical dilettanti. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
Our English dilettanti would be very pathetic on the subject of the national taste, if they could hear an Italian opera half as badly sung in. From Wordnik.com. [Pictures from Italy] Reference
All kinds of humans, including tourists, writers, European officials and desert dilettanti, have affixed every kind of adjective to Egypt's music. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
Change -- the "Cynthia of the minute," the morning thought and midnight dream of the dilettanti in human drapery -- has no captivation for the red man. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
Limoges ware that is the despair of the dilettanti. '. From Wordnik.com. [Coningsby] Reference
Only dilettanti care much for controversy on the matter. From Wordnik.com. [Prolegomena] Reference
They are not theological dilettanti, but earnest thinkers. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887 Volume 1, Number 4] Reference
House Tavern, in which the dilettanti and literary societies used to meet. From Wordnik.com. [The Strand District The Fascination of London] Reference
The cant of dilettanti would be laughed at by the old apostles and martyrs. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
So at least thought two dilettanti officers who must have missed the Theatre Favart in. From Wordnik.com. [The Duchesse De Langeais] Reference
Uta sets those things up by the thousand for the dealers to sell to indolent dilettanti. From Wordnik.com. [Philistia] Reference
He knew that the kings were dilettanti, that the theory of the aristocracies was liberal. From Wordnik.com. [Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work] Reference
You will find learned men undoubtedly, professors, reputed philosophers, and illustrious dilettanti. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
For among his varied literary essays, the Emperor, like most dilettanti, had tried his hand upon a tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [Horace] Reference
They cared for art as dilettanti, but no schools either of sculpture or painting were formed among themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Caesar: a Sketch] Reference
There are no more copies of it, despite the fact that fashionable dilettanti in things occult have borne it in mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note] Reference
Concert Spirituel, for the theatre, and for dilettanti, as well as teaching and visits to great people, occupied him. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference
Maltravers, on the other hand, introduced him to the literary dilettanti, who admire all authors that are not rivals. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
Amateurs of painting, dilettanti of the fine arts, great noblemen and financiers, were ruined, had emigrated or were in hiding. From Wordnik.com. [Dieux ont soif. English] Reference
Such is the man: he will call all the wits in London dilettanti, etc., but let a poor fellow die, and the Scotch heart flows forth in tears. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1] Reference
Alexandria -- to a 'symposium', after the manner of the philosophers and dilettanti of ancient Athens, to be held in the great concert-hall of the. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Alexandria -- to a 'symposium', after the manner of the philosophers and dilettanti of ancient Athens, to be held in the great concert-hall of the Serapeum. From Wordnik.com. [Serapis — Complete] Reference
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