| I'm a dilettante, a dabbler, and it was easy for many years to let that keep me on the sidelines. |
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| Or does he impinge on our current consciousness as a dandified dilettante admired by his own period but of utter irrelevance to ours? |
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| This all-too-short book is for anyone interested in opera, from the dilettante to the fanatic. |
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| A gentle aesthete and a shambolic dilettante, he was extraordinarily widely read, but shrewd and critical as well as omnivorous. |
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| Far from playing the dilettante, the author shares his in-depth knowledge of the area's religion, history and politics with the reader. |
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| As we discussed earlier, I'm a dilettante at best when it comes to dance, so I'm just going to be open about my ignorance. |
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| Is there really so little talent in the whole Liberal party that they gave the Communications job to a complete dilettante? |
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| The look may suggest dilettante, cavalier and swashbuckling and that is partly his style with bat in hand, but he is cussed and determined. |
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| But biographically you have at times seemed to regret that there is something almost dilettante about your involvement in the arts. |
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| Mr. Davis's reputation among some writers and assassination investigators as a dilettante was ill-deserved, Mr. Blakey added. |
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| It also hurt that he was seen as a dilettante, born to wealth and privilege and thus insensitive to the concerns of ordinary voters. |
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| A dilettante student, he changed majors every year: studying law, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, art history and anthropology. |
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| The baroness is a wealthy American Quaker brought to 19 th-century Paris by her husband's business dealings, trying to make the best of it as a cultural dilettante. |
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| Derby is often viewed as a dilettante leader who would rather have been racing his horses at Newmarket than taking part in debates at Westminster. |
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| The fired host unloads on Current TV, accusing Al Gore of being a dilettante and co-owner Joel Hyatt of blackmail. |
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| I finally feel like I can call myself a writer now, rather than writing being just something I do on the side, as a dilettante. |
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| As with London's later punk scene, New York City's new wave was a collision of sensibilities as influenced by suburban refugees as it was by art students part genuine roughneck and part dilettante. |
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| Was he not considered an amateur, even a dilettante, not only by the leaders of sporting organisations, but also by the recognised educationalists and historians of the Establishment? |
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| While HP has dismissed Mr Hewlett as a dilettante academic and musician, he has said the company needs a boss who is not learning on the job. Mr Hewlett does, however, have some strong evidence on his side. |
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| From 1908 on, Kandinsky's painting ceased to be that of a dilettante, making its way towards an invention that would prove determinant for the history of painting: abstraction. |
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| It has the potential to be a more powerful and enduring emotional base than the ephemeral and fleeing dilettante appeals of the latest exotic destination place as an appeal for food choices. |
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| Even his fans acknowledge that he bought titles such as the Revue des Deux Mondes, which was founded in 1829, simply for the prestige. It would be a mistake, however, to see Mr Lacharrière as a dilettante. |
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| At this time, his works consisted of small paintings, often landscapes in the impressionist style, like a travel logbook, which gained him the reputation of a dilettante in the Parisian milieu. |
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| I will state and openly confess that on this subject I am a dilettante since I possess neither the scientific acumen nor the economic insight to know who is correct. |
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| Nevertheless, during this period, he remained, in essence, a dilettante. |
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| It is only consistent with his distinctive grandiloquent, effusive, cavalier, self-infatuated, hornswoggling, meretricious dilettante scope and outlandishness. |
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