The second part of this section will introduce the idea of connoisseurship as a means of identifying works from the past as masterpieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Knowledge News] Reference

Whether this proves Borrow's susceptibility to female charm I cannot say, but it seems to me rather to prove a sort of connoisseurship, which is not the same thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Borrow The Man and His Books] Reference

So for example, the general skill Carouse has as its subskills "connoisseurship", gamble, and gather information.    From Wordnik.com.  [theRPGSite] Reference

An overt connoisseurship of sources comes into play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is It All Just a Dream?] Reference

But it is clear that her connoisseurship was of a finer type.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference

But eventually, connoisseurship touches everything in America.    From Wordnik.com.  [FOR THE LOVE OF CHOCOLATE] Reference

In fact he examined me with great curiosity, almost connoisseurship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

Fan connoisseurship is taken to heights at once neurotic and sublime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noam Chomsky vs The World Cup] Reference

I subscribe to a level of "chicken connoisseurship" that is almost unhealthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Weston: Jidori Chicken -- A Soulful Bird! Robata-Ya Is Where to Find it] Reference

It has much more to do with fund raising than connoisseurship in the old sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey! What's the Big Deal at MoMA?] Reference

"His connoisseurship was apparent, and he had a tremendous eye," Mr. Miller said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Machines, Living Dolls] Reference

Teach now to practice connoisseurship at the mall - aesthetic standards around quality, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

One section of the show, devoted to connoisseurship, offers several "takes" on a single subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Do You Define One?] Reference

It is one of the few things you can buy at a gas station that's also an object of connoisseurship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Attack of the Diet Cokes] Reference

In this new world of pandemic connoisseurship, there's no place for standard supermarket white bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [In our foodie culture, white bread is toast] Reference

He was now, in some measure, "a person of means," and he made the habit of connoisseurship his hobby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henrik Ibsen] Reference

Premium cars and luxury fashion brands are positioned based on "mastery of detail" or "connoisseurship.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Doctoroff: Human Rights in China: What Consumer Behavior Reveals] Reference

Could somebody please take a stand towards the return of connoisseurship to fashion by bringing back Lauren s.    From Wordnik.com.  [StyleLikeU: Lauren Ezersky Explains Her Style: 'I Don't Bullsh*t'] Reference

I don't quite know what would constitute a "prize" in this byway of connoisseurship, but do you have any favorites?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

Every detail spoke of the connoisseurship, the refined and personal taste characteristic of Oxford in the eighties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference

Traditionally, art history, with its conservationist and connoisseurship functions, served privileged social groups.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Unhappy Medium': An Exchange] Reference

She affected to lead the fashion, not only in point of female dress, but in every article of taste and connoisseurship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference

Paper money may not be the elixir or the philosopher's stone, but a touch of connoisseurship is its own sort of alchemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Auction] Reference

But his portrait of the sustained and systemic failure of art connoisseurship in the Wacker case is damning nonetheless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brush] Reference

Athens; which your connoisseurship knows is so exquisitely imagined, that even the particular manner of the reasoning of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

Bibliomania and connoisseurship were still to come when Austen wrote this book; the Public Libraries Act was unthought of.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Was Mr. Bennet Doing in his Library, and What Does It Matter?] Reference

I had some remembrances to give to my friends in Prussia; and at length, sending away the doctor to display his connoisseurship on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference

But now the sheer volume of work shown at fairs -- by 900 artists at some -- argues for art-fair fatigue and against connoisseurship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art Fair Explosion and Its Fallout] Reference

It is said that a drowning man will clutch at a straw; the truth of the remark applies to the half-informed in Fiddle connoisseurship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

Thanks to rising incomes, greater access to credit, and increased connoisseurship, Everyshopper could consider herself a luxury customer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinal Tap Economy] Reference

"I'm forced to tell you," he said, "that this is absolutely the best Danish I've ever eaten in half a century of pastry connoisseurship.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Moved A Mountain]

Already a devotee of art, ambitious for connoisseurship, who had had his joy, training, and sorrow out of the collection he had made and lost in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference

They have bequeathed us the fruits of their connoisseurship — the objects they bought for themselves and those they purchased on behalf of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muse of Hartford] Reference

But the deficits in handling and character require a degree of connoisseurship to appreciate, and what is that compared with a savings of 25 grand or more?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hyundai's Ur-Luxury Horse of a Different Dolor] Reference

In China, at least as early as the Tang Dynasty, tea was an object of connoisseurship, and formal tea-tasting parties were held, comparable to modern wine tastings.    From Wordnik.com.  [All about Tea] Reference

We'd love to say we mused upon decades of connoisseurship as we daintily nibbled on a single chocolate, but in fact we just scoffed the lot in front of Coronation Street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buy of the day] Reference

When discussing Kim Jong Il, who dines on imported delicacies while his countrymen starve, even our own journalists must describe his fixation in terms of connoisseurship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to Swallow] Reference