It stars a cast of mostly non-professional actors.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Filmmaker Gets Real] Reference

How can I (a non-professional) be so sure of this?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New McCain Ad: "Life In The Spotlight Must Be Grand"] Reference

KING: Just taken by a non-professional with a digital camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2005] Reference

Mrs. Tilly was the only non-professional member on the Board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Guion Griffis Johnson, July 1, 1974. Interview G-0029-4. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

He just was yelling at somebody in a very non-professional way.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2009] Reference

They are specially trained for this work at a non-professional level.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Having non-professional legislators is very common in smaller states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary: Obama Was "Part Time" State Senator] Reference

The problem is that there ` s a lot of non-professional photographers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2005] Reference

To the non-professional eye it seems not only difficult, but impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference

Not only did I find it insulting, but also immature and non-professional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are You a Victim of the "Cut-Off"?] Reference

I think perhaps she's the best non-professional dancer ever on this show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars Season 6 Premieres: Matlin and Yamaguchi Shine] Reference

And what criteria did you use to cast these non-professional young actors?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Balfour: Q & A: French Director Laurent Cantet Gets Educated about The Oscars Through His Film The Class] Reference

This included the writings of plenty of non-professional journalists like myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Snow: We Need Heroes in American Journalism] Reference

Both Waterston and Ngor (a non-professional actor who won an Oscar) are outstanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Farr: The Ten Best Movies About Journalism by Farr] Reference

It was the "non-professional" plan submitted by a doctor in medicine, one Charles Perrault.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

A lot of the people who staffed these voting machines on election day are non-professional.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2006] Reference

Estimates, of Students in Engineering, and of Contractors and other non-professional Computers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference

In the REDP's case all apprenticeship supervision was provided by local non-professional staff5.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

We've been very lucky with, you know, non-professional people out doing an awful lot of searching.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2003] Reference

It does look like a neat job to a non-professional, but they have left several flaws in their work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diamond Coterie] Reference

"He sounds like a non-professional who is doing it just to make money as opposed to helping people.".    From Wordnik.com.  [American Beat: The Unkindest Cut] Reference

Yet others burst strictly from the love I hold for both my professional and non-professional opinions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)] Reference

Written by a non-professional, this isthe most important thyroid book to come out in the last fewyears.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Review of Stop the Thyroid Madness, a New Book] Reference

The comments that follow were contributed by a group of non-professional (non-legal) members of the ANC.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

In fact, a view of our classes in progress of work is inspiring to anyone, professional or non-professional.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference

Increasingly in the late 1930s, Leopold found himself teaching and writing toward a non-professional audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aldo Leopold's Legacy] Reference

Dr. Eben smiled in spite of himself at this off-hand, non-professional view of the case; but he answered, sadly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hetty's Strange History] Reference

The enormous amount of detail work in a great paper is not easily to be conveyed to the non-professional reader.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884] Reference

In Gus Van Sant's Elephant, non-professional teenagers re-enact the carnage of the Columbine high-school massacre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sayonara Toronto! Thanks-I Think] Reference

On the non-professional side, individuals occasionally rent out their homes, but generally that's a complicated process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Esther Dyson: Release 0.9: When 2.0 -- Adding the Fourth Dimension] Reference

All these things came about at the insistence of local non-professional citizens taking part in policy making in education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with William Dallas Herring, May 16, 1987. Interview C-0035. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

"I want to stress that this investigation involves hospital personnel at all levels, both professional and non-professional.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Ligamentary skeletons of the smaller birds and animals are often prepared and mounted by the non-professional with fair success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference

And I believe that the answer lies in the hands of health care workers, of every rank and occupation, professional and non-professional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address to the National Health Summit] Reference

I am especially pleased with the manner in which you have looked after your men, which is often forgotten by the non-professional soldier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

The book is designed for the non-professional dog fancier, who wishes common sense advice which does not involve elaborate preparation or expenditure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple Growing] Reference

Africa; and to my non-professional mind it instantly brought to remembrance the familiar lines which tell how round about Jerusalem the hilly bulwarks rise.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference

Over the last 10 years, the name mumblecore has come to describe a type of independent film: low, low budget, often improvised, with non-professional actors.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Cyrus': A Loose, Low-Key Kind Of Crazy] Reference

Nikon announced yesterday its D90, a digital SLR camera that promises to do things that no point-and-shoot digital camera or even non-professional camcorder can.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nikon D90: The first D-SLR that records video] Reference