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
• When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
• Derby is often viewed as a dilettante leader who would rather have been racing his horses at Newmarket than taking part in debates at Westminster.
• And those who would be our allies need to buck their ideas up; there’s been too much dilettante faffing about for too long – it’s no wonder trans people are disengaging from the debates. Will the last trans person to leave feminist Blogdonia please turn off the lights?
• Media pundits can be opinionated dilettantes, but they can also possess the kind of knowledge that provides real insights into the subject under discussion.
• It's harder to defend the property rights of those who are perceived to be dumb-ass dilettantes.
• Is there really so little talent in the whole Liberal party that they gave the Communications job to a complete dilettante?
• An eclectic essayist is necessarily a dilettante, which is not in itself a bad thing. Memoirs on a rainy day
• The real generalist is sometimes known as a dilettante and needs an independent income. The Volokh Conspiracy » Palin, Ignorance, and Stupidity Revisited
• I suppose your Slav and your Anglo-Saxon have no prejudices, and that they share their Venetian with a dilettanteism quite modern. The French Immortals Series — Complete