Sentence examples for a devoted amateur from inspiring English sources

His late nature drawings appear to be the creations of a devoted amateur.

The main scientific purpose of the expedition was to map the area by means of aerial photography, and Strindberg was both a devoted amateur photographer and a skilled constructor of advanced cameras.

In December 1885 she married Henry H.A. Beach, an eminent surgeon, Harvard University professor, and devoted amateur musician.

In an era when even the most devoted amateur gardeners are pressed for time, the tough plants favored by the colonists merit attention.

I saw our job very clearly: to use this golden opportunity to celebrate the thousands of devoted amateur musicians across the country, to challenge our orchestras to achieve more and better and to help them to discover untapped potential.

They would be a mix of military and civilian musicians, including a married couple -- devoted amateurs who play chamber music at evening salons but also at executions.

For years, geologists and devoted amateurs have lobbied for a regional trail to offer the public an interpretation of the geologic record of these floods, from western Montana, where Glacial Lake Missoula formed, to huge boulders encased in icebergs that were washed from the Rockies by the surge and deposited in Oregon near the Pacific Ocean.

I had been trying to break the marathon's three-hour barrier; 2 59 is a holy grail for people like me, the devoted amateurs who show up to these races over and over again for a chance to beat no one but themselves.

Much of the best biodiversity research and outreach now comes from devoted amateurs and academics working in their free time, showing how close biodiversity is to the human heart.

Hockney's father was an accountant an an amateur artist and his mother was a devoted homemaker who instilled in her children a serious work ethic, one that would certainly serve the budding artist well later in life.

Her father was a Russian immigrant, amateur violinist and ardent Communist, her mother a devoted Catholic who worked in factories.