“He was the son of Silken Thomas and as a result of being educated in Italy he came to be recognised as a dabbler in the occult arts.”

“My aims will mostly be self-work, so I'm starting out as an unawakened dabbler.”

“I'm a dilettante, a dabbler, and it was easy for many years to let that keep me on the sidelines.”

“Not that there's anything satanic in his wizardly dabblings with cauldrons and broomsticks.”

“And are more surprises looming? Libya's uranium dabblings had accelerated in the past two years.”

“Yet as this first full biography, by Phillip Schewe, makes clear, his dabblings often carry the hallmarks of genius.”

“Our two most common ducks, Mallard and American Black Duck, are dabblers, as are teals and wigeons.”

“If they were pioneering dabblers in Freudian analysis, Carrie and her colleagues could be their true heirs.”

“In the available literature on film studies, dabblers and dilettantes abound.”