How To Use Aficionado In A Sentence

At about an hour long, most sets at festivals are just too short for true aficionados. Times, Sunday Times
We simply cannot recommend it highly enough - not just for hurling aficionados but for sports fans everywhere.
In hushed tones, art aficionados, painters and the odd diplomat discussed the question of the day. Times, Sunday Times
Tough a liyyle strange those questions are no difficulty for the genuine aficionado.
Automobile enthusiasts, aficionados, and followers could aberrate themselves from the accepted affairs of their accustomed lives and appear calm through this blog. Auto Parts Online, Auto Parts Online Blog Updating Consumers

For the aficionados, there are ways of telling the cars apart.
Garnished with an array of chutneys and delicious sambar, the end product is simply scrumptious for the food aficionado.
Our favorite ‘intense’ (read: creepy) actor is an aficionado of ecdysiasts.
I'm quite the scrunchie and hardtail aficionado, (#ffjd) but yes, I also dooo like actually pretty things! Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Fall Fahhshun and What It Means for Your Dating Life.
She is an art aficionado and a cake obsessive. The Times Literary Supplement
Unlike beer, which some wine aficionados describe as ‘the inebriant of the lout and half-wit’, wine requires drinkers to develop a complex sense of taste.
Yet at classical concerts there are aficionados who disapprove when people clap between movements. Times, Sunday Times
I happen to be an aficionado of the opera, and I love art museums.
But for aficionados of charmless architecture, it would be advisable to move fast.
Former hippie, former jailbird, former aficionado of crack cocaine, Felix Dennis built one of the most successful privately owned magazine empires in the world.
A literary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed.
He watched in silence as the aficionado sniffed the paprika bouquet and stirred the velvety stew with his spoon.
The serene Andaman and Nicobar islands may soon become a much sought after destination by not just tourists looking for cool and unsullied locales but also pearl aficionados.
Still, his aficionado's enthusiasm for Wagner's operas numbs him to the sensitivities and dilemmas of others.
But true opera aficionados were perhaps less surprised.
A sports aficionado and jazz lover, he was also able to devote more time to his young son by his third marriage. Times, Sunday Times
As a fellow boozehound and vodka aficionado said to me upon trying this one, "Now this is vodka! Tony Sachs: A Gin Snob Repents: 9 Lesser-Known Vodkas To Convert The Unconverted
Several years in the making, New York Times writer and Latin soul aficionado Matthew Ramirez Warren's labor of love aims to shed light on the rise and then the abrupt fall of Latin boogaloo. Isabelle Davis: A Labor of Love: We Like It Like That - The Story Of Latin Boogaloo
The proprietor, Val, has put together a site that should please any aficionado of mammalian aerialists.
The fear of running into one of these Cumbrian ale aficionados, supping on mysterious-smelling brews of porridgy so-called real ale amid background tones of chronic bronchitis, keeps many people away.
Rarely shown and unavailable on video, independent cinema aficionados speak of it reverently.
Aficionados all share a certain fondness for the transporter, the device that allowed the intrepid crew of the Enterprise to plunk down on various planets without benefit of spacecraft.
It's painful for cyclo-cross aficionados to forego racing season.
It is a ceremony that is carried out in carefully pre-arranged steps, as called for by the tradition of the corrida, each stage with its own name, and which the aficionados in the crowd will know by heart.
Undeniably the most gruesome part of the corrida, this suerte de picaris is intensely disliked by aficionados.
He has an aficionado's love of jazz, yet his tastes are anything but purist. Times, Sunday Times
The audience for academic journals and collections of philosophical essays is limited, however, and so the essay tended to be passed along, samizdat style, from one aficionado to another.
The story also conjures up several anecdotes that will be appreciated by Brit-pop aficionados.
It looked much like a satori stone which the aficionados of zanshin use to strengthen their hands. THE BROKEN GOD
The only correct way to hold the glass is by the stem though some professional tasters and aficionados like to hold it by the base.
And yet outside Romania only true jazz aficionados have heard of her. Times, Sunday Times
Naturally, art aficionados and collectors are not far behind: the rush is now on for old cinema posters and stills, as it was, and one supposes still is, for this artist's oleographs and prints.
There are murmurs amongst aficionados of his edgy, Gothic parables of Americana that he has gone over to The Other Side and become mainstream.
I guess this is the first car that means we as sports car aficionados can see beyond the end of the internal combustion engine. Times, Sunday Times
The evening offers Shakespeare aficionados a sneak preview of the summer program, which is slated to include The Comedy of Errors as well.
He was an aficionado of matsuri, which is a land of phenomenon one can find in Japan either on the theatre stage or in the whorehouse bed. The White Ninja
Your dad probably isn't a fragrance geek, but this is one the aficionados love. Times, Sunday Times
This kind of schizoid superimposition is becoming a theatrical cliché, and if you don't groove on it and TV trivia, you may not join in the aficionados' laughter.
Early music aficionados will have to go a lot farther than the Peninsula to find comparable satisfaction.
Behind the glass is the cavernous waiting hall that is a treasure chest for aficionados of 1960s interior detailing. Times, Sunday Times
Captain McArthur was a musical comedy aficionado, and not pleased when Mrs Kingswood spoke critically of the form.
Gourmet ketchup aficionados might also be interested in gourmet cheesesteaks.
Somewhere, too, he bumped into a sheepskin jacket aficionado. Times, Sunday Times
They are back to being an attraction for the aficionado only.
Have they moved on, embraced their sensitive avant-garde side and become aficionados of Animal Collective and their ilk, or are they still out there, preserved in aspic, lager in hand, just waiting for the right anthemic guitar-based noise to bring them back to life? Brother (No 880)
For true plant aficionados, grow a small tree, such as a ficus, on your deck.
Only the techiest of aficionados will find complaint with this video presentation.
The Gamay grape, according to a wine aficionado, is not particularly remarkable in itself; it was the freshness and juiciness of the new crop that made it something special.
Rumor (or is it Rumour?) has that, in her junior high days, Sheila was an aficionado (or is it aficionada?) of ground guinea pig on crackers. Dear clusterflock | clusterflock
The series was a natural fit for a woman who, if not a card-carrying gearhead, certainly qualifies as an aficionado.
A modern world "Coach House" for the automobile aficionado with two bedroom Guest House that has been designed to spoil your quests both with stunning Ocean and mountain Views.
Yet set against that is the fact that this is a pretty dry effort with an unusual lack of feisty anecdotes, and this remains one for the real aficionado.
Amazon's Kindle reader might still be a great device in the estimation of some literary aficionados, but the honeymoon is over for Michigan high school student (and potential member of Future Lawyers of America) Justin D. Gawronski, who's getting litigious with the online superseller after his copy of George Orwell's "1984" was yanked from his Kindle in July. Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
This makes me unfortunately certain that Slovenia, thus far unspoilt, will soon be as popular and overexposed a destination for short break aficionados as Prague or Budapest.
Music is becoming so readily available nowadays, with the rise of the internet, MP3 players etc, so for music aficionados there is real cachet in owning original vinyl.
All of the sterotypical connections one can make, of deer killing type connoisseurs and aficionado's of the bon vivant may take a dis-like to the above forementioned preference of communication ... via the verb. Beef or Venison: Which Tastes Better?
According to legend this is where the term bespoke was coined and to this day it continues to be the Mecca for custom suit aficionados. EzineArticles
They're ideal for gifts, and for converting reluctant prosy types and ebook junkies into strokable paper and fine-printing aficionados. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010
These crisp, bracingly acidic white wines can be terrific with food (especially shellfish), but they also can be too herbaceous for many wine aficionados.
Like a yoga aficionado? Times, Sunday Times
But, at each club I have played, there has been a hard-core of gambling aficionados, eager to offer tutelage on all options to aspiring punters.
Once again, he has appeased the demands of aficionados by gathering a fascinating mix of artists in the city this week.
Investing aficionados say flexible portfolio funds are only for nitwits who can't stand investing.
Now, for Chapalaberta meat aficionados from the Frozen Tundra who think a good steak should bark at them when placed on the grill, I must point out that Bubba stated the beef should be "greyish" not "green" which is not good. The big chapala beef beef
Zen keeps it simple by offering a no-frills service that is perfect for web aficionados and small businesses. Times, Sunday Times
A longtime hang gliding aficionado, the Asotin-based flight instructor had flown just about every parasail, trike, plane and glider in every kind of setting.
The Apollo collection is a wonderful addition for any Mahalia Jackson aficionado.
But to a dance aficionado, the repertoire presented by the popular troupe is inconsistent.
My flatmate, something of an rib aficionado by this point in the evening, suggests it would have been nice to give the barbecue sauce more time to caramelise as well. How to cook perfect barbecue ribs
Should the talented grappler fall the way of so many others and succumb to GSP in April, a match between Shields and Penn would be a ground aficionado's wet dream. Elliot Worsell: BJ Penn -- What Next?
True wool aficionados can choose their accessories by breed of sheep. Times, Sunday Times
Who knew the River crowd were art aficionados? Times, Sunday Times
The real aficionados of the film notice that there are no bikes in the final campfire scene. Times, Sunday Times
That diversity is the band's true strength and is a very welcome change for us jaded music aficionados.
Yet not many people, bar art aficionados, know who he is. Times, Sunday Times
The chick pea dish, in the opinion of our chick pea aficionado, was overcooked and the peas pulpy.
Aficionados insist that unpitted cherries make the best clafoutis because the stones contribute an almond-like f lavour. Times, Sunday Times
Aficionados complained that the previous model shared too much with Porsche's entry-level roadster, the $42, 600 and up Boxster.
Tobias Wolff is a short story writer, a memoirist, a novelist, a father, a husband, a jazz aficionado, a hiker upon remote mountain trails, a winner of literary awards, a neophyte pianist, and the mentor of many young writers.
Company executives insist that "exergaming" or "exertainment" -- the marriage of physical exercise and video gaming -- is becoming a hot new niche, and the most bullish aficionados say it might even help reduce the nation's obesity epidemic. Play to Get Fit -- New Concept?
The soloists, too, delivered a fetching geometry onstage, delightful to Balanchine aficionados anytime.
Aficionados of bobolink verse will also enjoy The Way to Know the Bobolink by Emily Dickinson.
Yet at classical concerts there are aficionados who disapprove when people clap between movements. Times, Sunday Times
Early music aficionados will have to go a lot farther than the Peninsula to find comparable satisfaction.
Like other Brontë aficionados, he probably imagined she had a detailed knowledge of the book, but it turned out she had not read it.
Blood Money, however, has some of his best work - aficionados will thrill to a couple of tracks in particular.
This has caused critics to grumble that despite their professed free-thinking, Apple aficionados are actually suffused with groupthink. It's an interesting irony.
But in looking at these methodically arranged and sedately framed photo works, it is easy to forget that he started out as an aficionado of truly transgressive imagery.
The debonair stylist was an aficionado of organic produce long before it became fashionable.
A literary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed.
In fact, as aficionados of the English language will know, a palindrome is a word whose letters spell the same forwards as backwards.
The hempseed oil adds a lovely richness that might even win over olive oil aficionados. Brigitte Mars: Vegan Gluten-Free Tabouli Salad
Christmas comes early for opera aficionados and classical music enthusiasts.
However guitar aficionados might consider the remixes a bit of a letdown after all the nimble plucking, strumming and fingering which precedes them.
But I've latterly perked up at a resurgence of his zingier side, alerted by a fellow aficionado to a recent Fashion Diary from Paris, in which he likens Ingrid Sischy, self-described as "triste" and yapping haplessly for Karl Lagerfeld after the Chanel show, to a baby seal stranded on an ice floe. role as a one man Walk of the Town, feeling for the worn seams of the city's public facades that betray its private dilemmas. Emdashes
As an aficionado of political remorse, I noted some years back that politicians caught in flagrante articulo tended to express "regret" when their tongues slipped. I'm Sorry, So Sorry
The city-owned center at Eighth Avenue and Eighth Street South has become known as a bluegrass home base for local aficionados, and last year some of the best tuned up there. Naples Daily News Stories
Furniture endorsements, chocolate teacakes, bowls aficionado… life rarely gets more fulfilling than that.
Cat blankets, so the aficionados say, are good for rheumatism.
Aficionados of business dinners will know that this wasn't actually spent on the meal (the befuddled restaurateur comped the food) but on the wine, most of which was older than they are.
Aficionados will be lulled into a sense of security by the new season.
A swelling crowd of aficionados, fifty thousand in all, snaked toward the bull-statued gates to the Plaza Mexico. Carlos The Impossible (Part 1)
Equally, it could be vulnerable to its aficionados fickly following friends to the next big thing in social networking. A Crusade to Protect the Baguette?
The longtime Brazilian bore aficionado achieved an unbelievable record of surfing non-stop for 10.1 km (6.3 miles) down Brazil's famous river bore wave, called the Pororoca.
But I can't help but feel that this is a book written by an aficionado for other aficionados.
UPDATE: Farhad Manjoo points out this old BBC article that warns of oral cancer in paan aficionados. Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives
So for the next four days I shall list in order, with pictures and vague explanations, the films which any self-respecting philosophy lecturer, Laibach aficionado and soi-disant Communist should acquaint themselves with. GreenCine Daily: Lists, 12/4.
Labyrinth in Houdetsi hosts the Irish-born lyra aficionado Ross Daly's lyra and lute workshops, while further south are the party hot-spots, where clubs like Zig Zag in Malia (Malia St) and The Matrix in Hersonissos (Eleftheriou Venizelou St) play DJ Omeyocan's remixes of Cretan hits. Insiders' guide to Greece
Without a doubt this show has an appeal that reaches beyond photography aficionados.
The finale presto becomes almost a topos to the Persichetti aficionado.
Action aficionados should have nary a complaint with the quality of the hardball played here.
The slogan aficionado then forayed into the world of advertising.
Eleven-year-old gamelan aficionado Morrison solemnly tapped out the steady beat on the kempli, a large kettledrum on which all the musicians in Balinese gamelan depend to keep time, especially when the rhythms get tricky.
Kevin again felt the flush of pride to think that a fellow aficionado was so clearly impressed by his labour of love.
A short woman in a baseball cap approaches me, apparently mistaking me for another snake aficionado.
While there is much here to delight the aficionado, there are more than a few clunkers as well, and many of the best films are available in other collections.
An elaborate in-joke that might have been concocted at a dinner like the one we see onscreen, Incident at Loch Ness is a satirical mockumentary that will delight Herzog aficionados.
Hybrids and cultivars have been classified by hemerocallis aficionados into precise groups, depending on the shape of the flowers. Times, Sunday Times
It is a haven for architecture aficionados and a gastronomic delight for lovers of sweets and desserts.
To architectural aficionados and style buffs, it's the only one of the many property programmes worth watching.
This alone should make the book desirable for those interested in amber or aficionados of fossil insects and spiders.
Beautiful mono. For Armstrong aficionados, a golden heirloom.
But none of these risks seems to deter sauna aficionados, who swear by the wooden boxes' ability to relax and remove toxins. Times, Sunday Times
That one-two punch is what leads to the exuberance of life that hotel aficionados adore. Times, Sunday Times
Keyboard aficionados from five continents enjoy reminiscing at The Classic Typewriter Page (xavier. xu.edu: 8000/~polt/typewriters. html), where classifieds offer the old machines to buy, sell or trade. Qwerty
Most modern art aficionados know that if mysterious British artist Banksy didn't create the urban world's love affair with quirky riddles in stencil art on public walls, then he certainly spearheaded its emergence into light — at least from a broader (if somewhat bemused and undecided) public's point of view. Graffiti: the wry humor of Mexico City street stencil art
Just as fixed-gear, indie rock aficionados usually balk at being categorized as hipsters, people in the outsider art world eschew the label outsider art. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
For the true aficionado, a beer is a special type of travel souvenir, to be greedily consumed and tucked away with all its heady memories.
He may have shunned the British academies for a training school in Barcelona, where he has honed his skills as a clay court exponent rather than a grass aficionado, but he still counts British No 1, Henman, as a role model.
Meyer boasts a remarkable amassment, highlighted by works from the Taos Society of Artists and the Cowboy Artists of America, that is valued in the millions and admired by art aficionados.
There is an abundance of game and semi-game fish in the rivers, inland water bodies and the seas off the State, the aficionados say.
Birdwatchers and wildlife aficionados may see hawks, white-tailed deer, moose, black bears, martens, red squirrels and beavers, and, if very lucky, catch a glimpse of timber wolves.
Martin is regarded by aficionados as a master of a complicated five-fingered playing style known as clawhammer, or frailing, in which the instrument's strings are pushed down by fingernails rather than pulled up with picks. Film | guardian.co.uk
Perhaps surprisingly, Clyde Roberson, the technical director at Medeco High Security Locks (which are praised by lock aficionados as being virtually unpickable), tends to agree with Schneier. Beware the 'Bump' Key
But some opera aficionados are sceptical. The Sun
The definitive upscale society animal: a baggily handsome, cigar-wielding martini aficionado who only seems to exist in the half-light of wittily conceived, beautifully styled cocktail lounges.
For aficionados of rich-people-being-naughty stories, there's this delicious tidbit from the story by Scott Reckard and Kim Christensen: The pilot of a private plane taking Nicholas and guests from Orange County to Las Vegas had to put on an oxygen mask because they smoked so much marijuana. Boing Boing
In England, some ales retain their popularity among aficionados.
I cut through the blarney at the fair to ask a cross-section of tourists who consider themselves aficionados of all things Celtic if they had heard of St Andrew.
The truth is, not every art collector is an aficionado of nudes.
If you're an aficionado of arcane ephemera, you'll enjoy flipping through this at least once.
In that sense, the uses of translation might be compared to the adoption of superscripts in opera, outreaching but not excluding the traditional audience of aficionados.
For four decades the avuncular media pundit and cookery aficionado has made a unique imprint on Thai politics. Times, Sunday Times
Phil Neville, captain in name and attitude, is perceived by England aficionados to be a clogger but despite his gene pool he is surprisingly cultured, both on and off the pitch. Everton Premier League 2011-12 team guide
It was a real and rare treat for aficionados of modern jazz.
And don't forget to bring your snorkel: diving aficionados swear that the Maldives have the finest dive sites in the world, and most resorts have fully equipped dive centres.
I guess this is the first car that means we as sports car aficionados can see beyond the end of the internal combustion engine. Times, Sunday Times
Ironically, greyhound racing aficionados were constantly 'clean bowled' by the deeds of Brett Lee - on and off the track!
For four decades the avuncular media pundit and cookery aficionado has made a unique imprint on Thai politics. Times, Sunday Times
He was a gun aficionado, and he had a collection of guns always around him.
They are the ones known intimately by cartoon cognoscenti, often memorized line-for-line and take-for-take, recited in unison by gleeful aficionados.
Some modernism aficionados argue that the Long Wharf Advocacy Group is too modest in its counterproposal.
A literary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed.
Matthew Baum, a soon-to-be Yale University graduate whose research on Fragile X Syndrome may someday lead to better treatments for mental retardation, is a wrestler on the side and started a club for beer aficionados. USA TODAY's college all-stars gifted in class and beyond
Not only do you not want to waste that 1982 Château Margaux on an aunt whose preferred tipple is Southern Comfort, but if the proceedings become--well, shall we say, convivial--even the most dedicated wine aficionado will find his attention wandering away from the vino, however impressive its pedigree. Holiday Wine Guide
But at the library, they identify as otaku - Japanese slang for manga aficionados - and their divisions run purely along manga lines. LISNews - Comments
Still, his aficionado's enthusiasm for Wagner's operas numbs him to the sensitivities and dilemmas of others.
Yet at classical concerts there are aficionados who disapprove when people clap between movements. Times, Sunday Times
A career labor advocate, he is also an art aficionado who dresses tastefully if not showily from major fashion labels.
Former hippie, former jailbird, former aficionado of crack cocaine, Felix Dennis built one of the most successful privately owned magazine empires in the world.
There is ample seacraft and warfare for aficionados. Times, Sunday Times
He watched in silence as the aficionado sniffed the paprika bouquet and stirred the velvety stew with his spoon.
It's ideal for die-hard command line aficionados, and brings with it lots of switches and specifiers.
However, what makes it cool is the 640 x 480 camera disguised as a jacket or shirt button, which will make spy aficionados, assorted pervs and some Geek Squad employees very happy.
My apologies if you are an ant or cutworm aficionado. BLACK BOOK « FranksFilms
And Teen Beat aficionados - and I count myself among them - won't miss one young tike who looks mighty familiar.
Aficionados of comic book blockbusters will be shouting in unison, ‘Get green, buddy!’
This beer is a winner with beer aficionados, especially hopheads who appreciate a hoppy beer that has at least a semblance of balance.
Routine intensifiers: when the advanced fitness aficionado gets stuck in a workout rut, it's time to shake things up and take your training to the next level.
It's a clever thing to write a book that entertains the expert as much as the ignorant, that amuses the aficionado as much as the amateur.
I'm sure that for aficionados, it will be a rare insight into the life, but for the less avid cinemagoer, who has seen only a fraction of the work, it is a stunningly tedious, incomprehensible, pretentious pile of cack.
In addition to being a prolific writer and editor, he was a connoisseur of art, an expert on forestry and an aficionado of historic houses.
While one wine aficionado may prefer a Chardonnay to a Cabernet, some art collectors may prefer different interpretations of wine art.
It's been argued by aficionados that within Leonard Cohen's melancholic work is a thick vein of comedy.
Yet at classical concerts there are aficionados who disapprove when people clap between movements. Times, Sunday Times
Captain McArthur was a musical comedy aficionado, and not pleased when Mrs Kingswood spoke critically of the form.
Every interruption is rightly frowned upon by tennis aficionados who use ridiculous stage-whispered tut-tuts to make their point.
While there's no flashy tube shaping, the smooth welds and machined dropouts are subtly beautiful and universally appreciated by aficionados of Old-World styling.
Slightly fruity, consistently skunky and infamous for its hangover potential, most aficionados drink it for the fame, not the flavour.
That one-two punch is what leads to the exuberance of life that hotel aficionados adore. Times, Sunday Times

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