dilettante

How To Use dilettante In A Sentence

• This is strong language, but it is time, and more than time, that sickly dilettanteism should be left behind, and this gross libel on the The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
• Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy.
• She differentiates between authentic naives and Sunday painters, dilettantes and epigones at adult art class level, none of whom is represented in her collection.
• A good many people in my own class are impatient of them, and think of them as harmless recreations; I fall back upon a few like-minded friends, with whom I can talk easily and unreservedly of such things, without being thought priggish or donnish or dilettanteish or unintelligible. At Large
• Journalism depends on uncredentialed losers, outsiders, dilettantes, frustrated lawyers, unabashed alcoholics - and, yes, creative psychopaths - to keep its blood red.
• Pointedly, the book vilifies the usurper Eve but saves its most caustic bitchiness for the bland dilettante-housewife Karen.
• Though on the surface they might seem only to be dilettantes, I admired the drive within them as they met failure and would go on to spend millions once again in another attempt.
• But the more ravishing the beauty which seemed offered through perfect realization of this knowledge, the more blighting would be its effects, if entertained in the spirit of a selfish dilettanteism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
• He became a symbol, I believe, to Al Smith of the shallowness of the American people, a shallowness that had hurt him so badly in '28 and had now elected this fop, which dilettante, which is how he perceived FDR. Empire Statesman: The Rise & Redemption of Al Smith
• Either he will become a dilettante, which is the French way, or he will take to drink and mystical nihilism, a career very popular in The Open Secret of Ireland