neophyte

How To Use neophyte In A Sentence

• And as far as the stuff that is really revolutionary, my neophyte status and lack of concrete knowledge when it comes to these things has prevented me from being able to really tackle the new and different within music.
• There's no greater feeling for a neophyte author than having an unpublished writer look up to you as a mentor.
• The neophyte candidate claimed it was a security project run amok, making the whole affair reminiscent of Watergate: too much money pushing too many imaginative staffers toward too much mischief.
• But teachers rarely do this sort of thing, as it threatens their livelihoods and, besides, they are only sitting beside the neophyte musician for about an hour a week.
• A muddled story, poor editing, a neophyte director, less-than-stellar special effects, and a couple poor casting choices have combined to make the movie a shadow of what it could have been.
• Although I imagine those with more knowledge of the other series will have a deeper understanding, it is still quite accessible to neophytes like myself.
• During the first centuries the comparison of the church with an army was carried out even in details; [5] the baptism of the neophyte was the oath of fidelity to the flag taken by the recruits. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
• It recalls the cowled monk with his cross, and the soldier close following with his sword; the old mission-house, with its church and garrison beside it; the fierce savage lured from a roving life, and changed into a toiling _peon_, afterwards to revolt against a system of slavery that even religion failed to make endurable; the neophyte turning his hand against his priestly instructor, equally his oppressor; revolt followed by a deluge of blood, with ruinous devastation, until the walls of both _mission_ and military _cuartel_ are left tenantless, and the redskin has returned to his roving. The Lone Ranche
• A group of rustic roysterers are admitting a neophyte into the drunken _confrerie. Castilian Days
• The Indians must apply to the commandant at the presidio, who, after obtaining from the padre a report, was to issue a written permit entitling the neophyte and his family to go where they chose, their names being erased from the Mission register. The Old Franciscan Missions Of California