All else was dilettantism, romanticism, charlatanism. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn] Reference
Monday, Dec. 01, 2003 - The shortcomings of dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [wench77 Diary Entry] Reference
Ironically, I consider THAT dilettantism and it frightens me. From Wordnik.com. [Listening to presidential talk — is Barack Obama what we want to hear now?] Reference
I'm not using this privileged pulpit to encourage dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha Power: Message to Graduates: "Be a Good Ancestor"] Reference
They were always in good faith and perished because of their dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn] Reference
Parload very bitterly for wasting his time in “astronomical dilettantism.”. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
You may distrust, if you wish, this development as the expression of an avid dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [What is unique to Catholic music?] Reference
The self-admiring dilettantism of Brook Farm did absolutely nothing to help the Boston poor. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: November 2007 Archives] Reference
And this was perfectly senseless, for I had not a shadow of dilettantism to reproach myself with. From Wordnik.com. [Time Regained] Reference
Writing book-length fiction has taught me to fantasize with purpose, to push through dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [The Circle: How Our Writing Changes Us] Reference
Because Trump is a celebrity, the media basically forgive his never-to-evolve political dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [Donald Trump Brings His 'Pretend To Run For President' Act To CPAC] Reference
Until this stage was reached, politics would remain bloody dilettantism, mere superstition and black magic. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn] Reference
They, too, read to be distracted, choosing an emasculate literature which panders to their essential dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
Conservatives see in the data an appalling religious dilettantism combined with a rising devotion to nothing at all. From Wordnik.com. [Changeable Creeds] Reference
Has this rather eclectic progress through working life been the product of necessity, choice, dilettantism or confusion?. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Powell: Multiple Choices] Reference
The Ballade fulminates against musical dilettantism, a favourite subject among 14th century composers, Italian or French. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Sometimes the effort smacks of highly paid dilettantism, as it did when Cameron Diaz played a pickpocket in "Gangs of New York.". From Wordnik.com. [The Joy of the Ensemble] Reference
This sort of multicultural dilettantism was like catnip in those early days of the UN — and, of course, still is in some circles. From Wordnik.com. [Are We Not Men?] Reference
Such reflections leave behind them a tinge of a remorse, above all when they are, as these, absolutely whimsical and founded on a simple paradox of dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It is the dilettantism of the Renaissance in its perfection. From Wordnik.com. [Amiel's Journal] Reference
My confounded dilettantism again throttled me as though there were. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Furs] Reference
To her firm spirit the idea of working in gloves savoured of dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl] Reference
A pedagogical/dilettantism/was already beginning to show itself everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life] Reference
What finicking dilettantism -- was ever such "antic, lisping, affecting fantastico?". From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
Scepticism, into dilettantism, insincerity; not to know a Sincerity when they see it. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
And yet these grim old walls are not a dilettantism and dubiety; they are an earnest fact. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
So disinterested and expensive a toy is its own justification; it belongs to the heroics of dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Hours] Reference
Dilettante is now a term of reproach; but there is a certain form of dilettantism to which no one can object. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
In Mr. Gladstone it was something very different from casual dilettantism or the accident of a scholar's taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
All my so-called study of modern life in former days was the merest dilettantism, mere conceit and boyish pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
Christophe's music: -- (for dilettantism and the spirit of anarchy had spread even to the watchdogs of the Third Republic). From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe Journey's End] Reference
It ought to delight you as your studies of physical science delight you -- but you don't call physical science dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
Nothing more is necessary for the perfect life of dilettantism, except to settle an afternoon for tea, and an evening for music. From Wordnik.com. [manybooks.net] Reference
Even his revolt against formalism is only a new fashion of composure, and sometimes comes dangerously near to moral dilettantism. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson] Reference
He, also, had fallen a victim to the artistic dilettantism which was one of the refined passions of the nobility before the Revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Germinie Lacerteux] Reference
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