How To Use Connoisseur In A Sentence
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Experience can contribute to connoisseurship, but only if the consumer tastes with attention and an open mind.
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Most of this coffee is not the higher grade arabica bean sold to connoisseurs, but the lower-grade robusta that ends up in instant coffee or in cheap blends sold in supermarkets.
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For Evan Snyderman of R 20th Century, a leading New York gallery, Design Miami/Basel is one of the few fairs in the world committed to the level of presentation and connoisseurship our gallery strives to achieve.
Maturing Gracefully
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In connection with an item of Ru ware of the Northern Song dynasty, for instance, which many connoisseurs regard as one of the absolute pinnacles of Chinese ceramic art, the author of the pertinent catalogue entry states that certain qualities of shape and decoration “make it incredibly rare even within this exceptional group.”
Archive 2009-08-01
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‘You are a connoisseur in flowers, signor,’ said Beatrice, with a smile, alluding to the bouquet which he had flung her from the window.
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The works are carefully chosen to suit both connoisseurs and tenderfoots.
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He was, too, essentially and curiously the son of his father -- even to his minor tastes, such as his connoisseur's palate for a good wine and his judgment in "smokes" -- and this feeling of a certain detachment from the larger emotions of life was always his father's pose -- the philosopher's.
A Student in Arms Second Series
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A connoisseur would shun the very notion of ‘spoiling’ this fragrant and bubbly brew by adding milk or sugar to it.
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I'm no muffin connoisseur, but I think that's how muffins should be!
Archive 2008-04-01
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Lo, Pythonic brethren and sistren sic, our sacred fools are back, bearing sumptuous gifts for the discerning comedic and musical connoisseur.
Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah : Monty Python Strikes Again!
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Lord Burlington was a great collector and connoisseur of paintings.
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The author labels Fleming's creation a "snob" for his obsession with top-of-the-market brands, "with the result that in the later books Bond has arguably developed from connoisseur to fusspot.
The Work, Not the Author, Matters
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In the 1980s Jacques Kerchache, a former dealer, collector and connoisseur of primitive art, took up the cudgels again.
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I'm not the sort of pencil connoisseur to use pretentious French words (whoops -- too late) and imply that using the ideal writing utensil is some kind of transcendental experience.
Archive 2008-05-01
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Wilson's third chapter has a straightforward connoisseurial emphasis on the interpretation of visual evidence, especially her analyses of the production of replication.
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When a standpat Republican politician abandons a lifetime of party regularity at 70 to come out in hearty praise of a Democratic President," the paper noted, "it is time for connoisseurs of the unusual to stand by and take notes.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics
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If you are a bit of a vino connoisseur then the new Newbridge wine club, which is to be set up shortly, could be just for you.
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Not surprisingly, for connoisseurs of media history, the prime optic of this dilatory policy exercise has been censorship.
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Even for someone who is not a connoisseur of art, visiting the place is an unforgettable experience.
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An innovative programme of promotions, based on the themes of connoisseurship and discovery, has built a solid following.
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Still, as a connoisseur, I think irritating an entire nation's Buddhist monks has to be the kickflip McTwist of shocking the bourgeoisie.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Harley Rivera is my best friend, a connoisseur of fine music and petty larceny.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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A connoisseur's erudite choice ups the ante vastly.
Times, Sunday Times
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And soon the leading art connoisseurs will have a new cultural capital to discover.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maher by contrast is all slickness and centrality — brilliantined, bespoke, with that pampered chuckle and long, connoisseurial nose.
An Atheist Walks Into a Bar …
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The figures shown in the picture above depict Connoisseur 8-pounders and Elite 12-pounders along with some Elite Miniatures artillery crew in bicorn, as worn in the 1805-07 campaigns.
Russian Artillery
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Connoisseurs consider continental chocolate, made from just cocoa beans and cocoa butter, superior to British chocolate, which has vegetable fat added.
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He was a connoisseur of fine wine (particularly claret) and enjoyed the opera.
Times, Sunday Times
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Further south the heady brew is cognac, aged in oak casks and sought out by connoisseurs around the world.
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The money came from the proceeds of a special experiment devised by Manfred Milinski, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, a connoisseur of food and fine wine, a zoologist and naturalist who feels equally at home with people and stickleback fish, as we saw in chapter 1.
SuperCooperators
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The golden chanterelle, as it is commonly known, is a favorite among mushroom connoisseurs.
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The aim of teaching classical poems at college is to inherit and bequeath the cultural heritage, to foster students' taste and interest in literature, to develop students' poetic connoisseurship.
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The firm, nut-flavored boletus are more blue-collar and not as coveted by connoisseurs, but they go better with brook trout.
Fool’s Paradise
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As for the future, Randall is a beer connoisseur and would love to someday grow hops and barley and get Mexicans "hooked on hops beer.
Zirahuen, Michoacan: Mexico's Walden Pond
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A long-handled spoon helps to savour the foodstuff in small and leisurely mouthfuls, in true connoisseur's style.
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The connoisseur would have the imli and gur mixed just so right and the chaat would be so hot as to make your eyes water.
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According to these self-appointed connoisseurs, he was a bawler without taste, without method, a maker of absurd trills, an unimpassioned actor of little intelligence, and many other things besides.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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The exhibition will be a delight for the collector and connoisseur of silver ornaments.
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It will give an opportunity for the connoisseurs of food to fulfill their gastronomical desires.
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Wine connoisseurs demonstrate how to savour the true taste of wine without depending on the nose.
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In record shops, they both stood apart as labels that were run by and for connoisseurs, shields of taste and discrimination.
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Combined with a glass of wine, sweet and vulgar in taste to any connoisseurs, such made for a perfect repast in the quiet of his home.
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Elsewhere in the issue we visit Washington's spectacular South Puget Sound, a kind of briny Burgundy where every cove and waterway seems to grow its own distinctive shellfish -- each with its own connoisseur following.
Editor's Note
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Bottle shapes evolved so as to allow extended bottle ageing and thus were born vintage wines, and connoisseurship.
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It's hard to imagine that as recently as 30 years ago, most wine snobs dismissed Napa vino as swill, and just a couple of decades ago Australia and Chile barely blipped on the wine connoisseur's radar.
10 Off The Beaten Path Wine Regions (PHOTOS)
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Who can blame that fabled celebrity connoisseur of ecdysiasts for wearing a mask when he dropped in for a spot of ale at his favorite London strip club?
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A company run by a connoisseur who sells investments in fine wine has been accused of fraud.
Times, Sunday Times
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Artists and art connoisseurs saw in Friedrich only a kind of mystic, because they themselves were only looking out for the mystic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Like the original structure, his piece has a beauty that lures connoisseurs.
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True hi-fi connoisseurs may well murmur'of course!
Times, Sunday Times
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Even the original Vulcan, as connoisseurs of Roman mythology will remember, was a clumsy bore, which is one reason his wife Venus cuckolded him with the more mobile Mars.
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It might not have struck every beholder, for it looked old and smoke-dried; but a connoisseur, on inspecting it closely, would have pronounced it to be a judgment of Paris, and a masterpiece of the Flemish school.
Lavengro
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There is a trend in connoisseurship to make the mistake of believing that a netsuke that is carved by a pupil in the style of his master and bearing his signature is in some way less powerful or inventive than one might expect from the master.
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My mother does not work, but she's an art connoisseur.
Times, Sunday Times
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Further south the heady brew is cognac, aged in oak casks and sought out by connoisseurs around the world.
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This is certainly one for the connoisseurs of Sky News bust-ups, who cannot help but recall the Boulton-Campbell set-to of May 2010.
Chris Bryant accuses Kay Burley of being 'a bit dim'
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It will give an opportunity for the connoisseurs of food to fulfil their gastronomical desires.
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Early catalogues served connoisseurs and noble visitors whilst also publicizing the taste and wealth of the owner.
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Fundamental to indie is the discursive practice of the connoisseur.
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I have seen salmon blow a worm in and out of their mouths several times, like a connoisseur tasting fine wine, before swallowing it deep into their gullet.
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The light deprivation leads to a sweeter rhubarb than the summer variety and it has become the connoisseurs' choice for sweet and savoury dishes.
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Perhaps this was justified, considering that the audience was expected to consist of laymen, not connoisseurs, who would not have been able to distinguish between one tala and another or their role in imparting the rasas.
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But the king, who had studied artistic theory with Aristotle and fancied himself a connoisseur of fine paintings, demanded that Apelles try again.
Alexander the Great
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It shows a true connoisseur at work.
Times, Sunday Times
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So unless you are a music Connoisseur, put a sock in it and watch this week's performance. zarak khan Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 09: 58 AM EST its the other way around hes outsinging danny gokey terri Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 09: 58 AM EST
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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The elegant sculptures in bronze, white metal and ceramics were the cynosure of connoisseurs.
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His timing is immaculate, defence solid and his shot execution is a connoisseur's delight.
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The exhibition will be a delight for the collector and connoisseur of silver ornaments.
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They have been created by expert designers to attract fashion connoisseurs and the textile industry at large.
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His connoisseurship is broad and deep, his examples are often breathtaking, and his analyses of how the masterpieces achieve their effects are acute and compelling.
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I think prodigious is the word that best describes Winston Churchill the man-artist, orator, soldier, journalist, proud father and devoted husband, a connoisseur of food and wine and beauty, a passionate lover of life, of its great moments and its small pleasures.
Winston Churchill
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So it was probably fortunate for these cosmopolitans that, just at this moment, after centuries of collecting and connoisseurship, a rigorously beaux-arts practice was finally established by Manet.
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The female CEO ( Chief Executive Officer ) is a connoisseur of installation art.
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Conventional wisdom has it that kitsch - from the German language for ‘to throw together’ and implying popular or lowbrow taste - should be eschewed by the connoisseur, the lover of fine art.
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The original 1857 orchestral prelude is only rarely being heard these days and so the Chailly CD is a true gem for connoisseurs of Verdi operas.
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Artists and art connoisseurs saw in Friedrich only a kind of mystic, because they themselves were only looking out for the mystic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The dense, fudgy cake is pure heaven for chocolate connoisseurs.
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For instance, I fashion myself a connoisseur of art.
Christianity Today
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The historian is like the connoisseur who recognizes the artist not by that which is characteristic of him (and consequently imitable) but by that which, so to speak, spontaneously 'escaped' him.
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He is a film buff, theatre-goer, art connoisseur, reader and amateur boxing referee.
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From the humble earthen pot to fancy shapes in clay designed to appeal to the connoisseur… the fair seeks to impress from the word go.
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Just half an ounce of the fish liver, known as fugu kimo in Japan and eaten by daring connoisseurs, can be lethal.
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Roll in for a night of strictly vinyl hip hop, funk & rap mixed by the 3x NZ DMC Champion & 2005 Australasian championship winner for a 5 hour set with support from local hip hop connoisseur Dam G.
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The golden chanterelle, as it is commonly known, is a favorite among mushroom connoisseurs.
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For beer connoisseurs it was one of the great events of the social calendar - a real ale festival at one of Scotland's finest country houses.
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With a price tag of about Rp 200,000, you either have to be an ophidian connoisseur or be firmly convinced of the health-giving properties.
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Connoisseurs Cookery and Hospitality College will have vetkoek with mince curry, breyani, chicken and apricot curry, bobotie and sosaties on offer.
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Lucknowi nawabs were great connoisseurs of food.
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Or perhaps you feel you are a true connoisseur who believes Macadamia nuts should be consumed completely unadulterated.
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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.
George Borrow The Man and His Books
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A small group of connoisseurs would gather out in the back room each holding their glass up to the watery sunlight filtering through the dirty sash window.
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There were other imperfections of vision, however, for which I felt responsible and ashamed; and with Dacres, though the situation, Heaven knows, was none of my seeking, I had a little the feeling of a dealer who offers a defective bibelot to a connoisseur.
The Pool in the Desert
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But occasionally, the high street comes up with something to fool even the savviest shoe connoisseur.
Times, Sunday Times
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The second part of this section will introduce the idea of connoisseurship as a means of identifying works from the past as masterpieces.
Art Knowledge News
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Like most royals, Ranjit Singh is a connoisseur of the arts.
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All the connoisseurs in town would flock about them attentively with their glasses.
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The programme promises to be a delight for the connoisseurs of music.
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But the true connoisseur of classification would have to concede that utility is not the point.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now as connoisseurs of female gams will attest, female calves, like the rest of the female form, can range from slim to curvy.
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But also on the Greek Parnassus of that time sat the same connoisseurs of degeneration who, in ornate words, declared their pessimistic conviction that nothing in this world was worth anything except their ability to express perfectly this very thought.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1979 - Presentation Speech
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True hi-fi connoisseurs may well murmur'of course!
Times, Sunday Times
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The furniture detailed in the small book is considered by connoisseurs to be the highest expression of baroque form and rococo ornament.
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When a standpat Republican politician abandons a lifetime of party regularity at 70 to come out in hearty praise of a Democratic President," the paper noted, "it is time for connoisseurs of the unusual to stand by and take notes.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics
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Mark, who as well as being a highly skilled conservator and connoisseur of Latin American dancing is also a dedicated twitcher, knew what I meant.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Sea salt is the category to which belong many of the kinds of salt specially prized by connoisseurs.
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It was, she decided, much sweeter than love: a sensation for the connoisseur of emotion.
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In an early-nineteenth-century book — attributed to Mayer Oppenheim — about English-style pottery, prominent references are made to Torbern Bergman, Jean-Henri Hassenfratz, René Réaumur, Johann Heinrich Pott, and Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, all authors of publications about ceramics manufacture or about some aspect of that subject. 10 Oppenheim mentions the potters Josiah Wedgwood and Bernard Palissy, names a connoisseur would recognize although neither was then alive.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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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?
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In addition to being known as a connoisseur of pulchritude, Hughes had a reputation as an inventor, and was said to have designed a special bra to make even more of Ms. Russell's appearance.
Jane Russell, film siren who sizzled on-screen in 'The Outlaw,' dies at 89
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For instance, I fashion myself a connoisseur of art.
Christianity Today
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Connoisseurs of box office bombs will no doubt be aware of its epic failure at the box office ($500,000 gross versus a $40 million budget).
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It seems that certain connoisseurs were not averse to engineering breakages so that precious vessels could be mended in this way, and beyond the sinuous lines — some exquisitely fine, occasionally spidery and nervous, others unctuous, broad, plump, and fluid — the volatile elements of chance and happenstance, in other words the randomness of these sudden breakages, lends to this art its clever brinkmanship with the big twin concepts of time and impermanence.
Archive 2009-07-01
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A leading connoisseur of bottled water last night advised consumers to pick and choose between bottled and mains water.
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Holderness was an enthusiastic connoisseur of art and music and his Dutch wife assembled a distinguished collection of porcelain.
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WORD CORRECT PRONUNCIATION bivouac _biv'wak_ chargé d'affaires _shar zha'daffar'_ connoisseur _connissur_ dishabille _dis'abil_ ennui _onwe_, not _ongwe_ finale _finah'le_ foyer _fwaya'_ massage _masahzh_ naïve _nah'ev_ papier maché _papya mahsha_ piquant _pe'kant_ prima facie _prima fa'shie_ pro tempore _pro tem'pore_ régime _razhem'_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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Catching him looking at her in a mirror during their engagement, she sees herself as he sees her, ‘with the assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh, or even of a housewife in the market, inspecting cuts on the slab’.
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He also fancies himself a playwright, and approaches the well-heeled Mr. Dangle (Darragh Kennan) and the waspish Mr. Sneer (Jonathan Smoots), a pair of opinionated connoisseurs, in the hopes of enlisting their support for his latest effort, a tragedy called "The Spanish Armada" that ranks alongside "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" as the worst play ever written.
Those Who Cannot Do…
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The connoisseurs came up with a surprising range of taste and bouquet descriptions.
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Top pick The edition of the franchise favoured by the true connoisseur returns for a ninth series.
Times, Sunday Times
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Around 24 copperplate inscriptions unearthed there and in the neighbourhood reveal that the king had great respect for all religions, and was a connoisseur of art and culture.
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For most of us, the word ‘citrus’ conjures up images of oranges, grapefruits, lemons, limes - and possibly citrons or blood oranges, if you're a true connoisseur of fruit.
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But while these special editions are enjoyable in their own right, if you're expecting to be first-footed by a whisky connoisseur, it might be good idea to have a decent bottle of the straightforward stuff to hand.
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18 To the porcelain connoisseur Warren Cox, the proliferation of willowware occurred to the detriment of good taste: “Nothing could better exemplify the utter dearth of aesthetic consciousness than the stupid copying of this design which lacks every element of true Chinese painting and any real claim to beauty whatsoever, and the maudlin stories wrought about it to please the sentimental old ladies of the late eighteenth century.”
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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This week we publish a rebuttal that, at the very least, will delight connoisseurs of academic duelling to the death.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Several members of his family had been artists or lovers of art, and Gow himself became no mean collector and connoisseur.
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Real connoisseurs of Cold War sporting tussles treasure the memory of the USSR beating the USA in the 1972 basketball final.
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In porcelain and pottery, connoisseurship was in its infancy, as can be seen by publications of the time.
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With just over a month to go before this year's grape harvest, vineyard owners and wine connoisseurs are hoping the good weather will continue.
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Award-winning chef David Wilson is a wine connoisseur, and he insists on all red wines being decanted as near as possible to their storage place, and as soon as they are taken off the rack.
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In the current New Republic, there's a passel of blather under the byline Amitai Etzioni (a name achingly familiar to all connoisseurs of crypto-academic bien-pensant bullbleep) that sets forth a plan by which America will transform itself into a nation of savers.
Panic in Detroit
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The exhibition will be a delight for the collector and connoisseur of silver ornaments.
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In this period, as connoisseurs and virtuosi honed their new skills, they dreamed of possessing galleries of rare and splendid collections to enhance their status and to enjoy the pleasures of conversazioni.
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Not exactly the connoisseur's choice, is it?
Times, Sunday Times
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The result is a cross section of voracious consumers who rapidly acquired a reputation for being buyers of logo'd bling rather than discerning connoisseurs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Someone wrote more acutely that The Hound in the Left-Hand Corner does for a great museum what Arnold Bennett - ‘a no less notable connoisseur of luxury’ - did for the international caravanserai in his Grand Babylon Hotel.
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Taut leatherette seating, snug booths, it's a dream of a diner for cafe connoisseurs.
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'horsy' is, in English acceptance, a count in the indictment against his claim to be thought a gentleman, it is not surprising that there will be men more ready to hazard their characters than their connoisseurship.
Lord Kilgobbin
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My novelist friend Janet Fitch (White Oleander, Paint It Black), herself a literary explicator and connoisseur of female “badness,” was inspired to invoke those bad old days the other evening.
On Being a Bad Mother
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Meanwhile the project seems to have provoked some bemused commentary among art connoisseurs.
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It is a quaint and relaxing venue, a home to connoisseurs of blend, bean and cream, and a portal for percolator punters like me.
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Raw concrete is a taste acquired by few outside a tight-knit commando of architectural connoisseurs.
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The definitions will differentiate cheaper impostors from the best oil: those cold-pressed, pure, golden-hued products that lead connoisseurs to talk of grass tones, apple or nut flavors, and peppery finishes, in a language usually reserved for wines.
Feds To Begin Enforcing Olive Oil Designations
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It's the kind of connoisseurship you can feel good about: unlike some wines and good coffees, artisan cheese is decidedly anti-corporate, produced by co-ops and small dairies, often by very few people or families.
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I am not a great connoisseur of literature and my choices may be controversial but they are solely intended to encourage pith and to share the pleasure I get when I come across sentences that strike me as complete in themselves.
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We in this way wish to honor Nik Douglas 'life's work of dedication to the Dharma, interdisciplinary scholarship and research, avid connoisseurship and arduous efforts to collect an extraordinary body of work documenting this central vein of the artistic emanation body.
Mike Ragogna: The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana : A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman
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The monasteries were real magazines of charming dainties, which is one reason why certain connoisseurs so bitterly regret them.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
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Certainly, there was a host of different dishes hot and steamy to cater to the tastes of connoisseurs.
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Caribbean mango connoisseurs argue over which variety is the most luscious.
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Finely carved brass metal items are comparatively costlier, but connoisseurs of art can ungrudgingly pay for it considering the amount of effort that goes into making these artefacts and the cost of the metal.
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So for example, the general skill Carouse has as its subskills "connoisseurship", gamble, and gather information.
TheRPGSite
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Fireworks are integral to the social life of the Japanese, who are perhaps the world's greatest firework artists and connoisseurs.
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In the way of small joys I am already quite a connoisseur, indeed I might call myself a collector in that line -- of _bibelot_ editions, you understand, for thus far I seem to have been unable to acquire any of the larger specimens!
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
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Plus, connoisseurs will soon be to able purchase originals for themselves.
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I don't pretend to be a connoisseur or conoscenti myself; but
Tales and Novels — Volume 06
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He grabbed it and unsheathed it, admiring the slim silver blade and the connoisseur smith who had shaped it.
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Not being a connoisseur of disaster movies, I'll leave it to others to decide if it's a good film.
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It was, she decided, much sweeter than love: a sensation for the connoisseur of emotion.
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Why is a curatorial project in feminist revisionism, buttressed by scholarly discussions of Victorian domesticity, gender identity and literary culture, enveloped in a thick mantle of connoisseurship?
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Connoisseurs of back flip passes, outrageous dummies and champagne rugby in general would have loved this hugely entertaining romp.
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It shows a true connoisseur at work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lo, Pythonic brethren and sistren (sic), our sacred fools are back, bearing sumptuous gifts for the discerning comedic and musical connoisseur.
Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah : Monty Python Strikes Again!
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In the 1980s Jacques Kerchache, a former dealer, collector and connoisseur of primitive art, took up the cudgels again.
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My mother does not work, but she's an art connoisseur.
Times, Sunday Times
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And for the connoisseurs among you - it was not as gamey as bald eagle but a bit stringier than sandhill crane.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Beer connoisseurs argue that the brews don't taste as good as those made with malted barley.
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A major fishing writer and renowned flycaster, tyer, connoisseur fishes with a reel under $40?
Inexpensive Fly Fishing Tackle
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A sub-plot for the connoisseurs of individual grudges?
Times, Sunday Times
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Connoisseurs of the interesting - whose antonym is the boring - appreciate clash, not harmony.
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Top pick The edition of the franchise favoured by the true connoisseur returns for a ninth series.
Times, Sunday Times
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The female CEO ( Chief Executive Officer ) is a connoisseur of installation art.
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Britain is turning from a nation of lager louts to a country of wine connoisseurs.
Times, Sunday Times
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SAFIRE: Well, language maven, and maven, of course, is a Yiddish word for connoisseur.
CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2008
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For connoisseurs of schlock, they're priceless.
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The thieving wine connoisseurs then ransacked the house, stealing laptops, wallets and jewellery.
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This rose is esteemed among connoisseurs for its colour and scent.
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And soon the leading art connoisseurs will have a new cultural capital to discover.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dense, fudgy cake is pure heaven for chocolate connoisseurs.
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While sippers and connoisseurs of every stripe debate whether Australia is the new California or Michigan, shiploads of the stuff is selling, especially in the States.
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Britain is turning from a nation of lager louts to a country of wine connoisseurs.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a cutting-edge audiophile invention, it seduced the technophilic, connoisseurist males who typically buy new sound equipment and quickly build collections of recordings.
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I was distinguishing what was indisputably a mass-market phenomenon-opera and the fantasies spun off from opera that were the core of so-called miscellany programs-from the serious music written for a composer's pupils or the connoisseurs who patronized aristocratic salons.
City Journal
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For connoisseurs of intelligence fiction a few titles epitomize the essence of the craft.
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We become connoisseurs of eyes and (with headless statuettes and veiled grotesque heads) of eyelessness.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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Of course, what the Playboy connoisseurs are surveying is not Madame Bovary's fine form, nor her much-commented-upon smooth bands of black hair or great dark eyes.
'Bovary' Translation Does 'Le Mot Juste' Justice
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The word connoisseur means, 'the people that think your tastes are so far below them, you are no better than a garbage scouring raccoon'.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Many knowing rabbit connoisseurs and hunters prize simple fried rabbit.
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Both serious wine connoisseurs, Graf and Rydman collaborated with the chairs and bistro moderne chef Philippe Schmidt on a symphony of food and wine that had patrons swooning.
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Accompanying me through the exhibition, Mr. Lahikainen observes: "Beyond understanding connoisseurship, which is part of a curator's job, this project offered the opportunity to learn your guy so well that you learn his spirit and the thinking that guided his hand.
A Mantel of Greatness and Other Classics
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Jayne and I decided to share a large slice of banoffee pie, which was gorgeous, while Marjorie, a connoisseur of trifles, gave the Lamplight sherry trifle nine marks out of ten.
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He is the connoisseur who can discriminate between two equally fine wines.
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Top pick The edition of the franchise favoured by the true connoisseur returns for a ninth series.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cigar smokers and after-dinner imbibers reside next door in the even woodier Connoisseur Club.
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Someone wrote more acutely that The Hound in the Left-Hand Corner does for a great museum what Arnold Bennett - ‘a no less notable connoisseur of luxury’ - did for the international caravanserai in his Grand Babylon Hotel.
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We clock them in and clock them out for, at such times, you become a connoisseur of the small picture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Renowned for his visual acumen and connoisseurship, he grew up in Paris and New York, the son of a scholar of medieval church history.
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Among tequila connoisseurs, the best anejo tequilas rank with the finest cognacs and are often consumed neat from a snifter.
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In one of sports great arenas, the Milan derby indulges the connoisseurs.
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He is a writer whose colloquial approach masks both a rather uncolloquial feeling for the tautest way of getting his point across and a word connoisseur's desire to show off his collection.
An Eye on the Tremors
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She had all the tricks old-timers were taught to enthral connoisseurs.
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Deer, wild boar, so we can claim to be connoisseurs.
