Sentence examples for informed amateur from inspiring English sources

He begins, here, with a brief statement of his credentials as an informed amateur (Still Looking follows on from Just Looking, though there is an affectation in that implied modesty: Updike is nothing if not competitive about his taste).

This is the era of the informed amateur making it big, at least in hardware, software, and media.

Friedman's analysis is certainly far outside the mainstream, and from my informed amateur perspective, the amounts by which he predicts Sanders' program will exceed the CBO baseline are mighty implausible.

And for some, including a handful of well-informed amateur water-watchers, it has become a life-altering obsession.

Even more, the well-informed amateur always played an important role in biodiversity research, and continues to do so today.

We popped by and were informed by some punters that Wednesday nights are amateur strip contest night.

For amateurs and pros alike, not even being informed that your hijacked photo is famous a big bonus for anyone's portfolio is comical.

Amateur musicians are the best sort of audience, informed to the point that they have played the very pieces on a night's concert program.

The conservative radio host informed his listeners that the judge was an avid hunter and amateur taxidermist who once killed three brown bears and mounted their heads over his courtroom door to "instill the fear of God into the accused".

The camp remained forgotten until the early 90s when an American businessman and amateur genealogist named Paul Polansky rediscovered it in the Czech archives and informed the US Congress.

Like Bill Bryson, he adopts the affable guise of an enthusiastic amateur, but although he wears his learning lightly, he's far better informed than he first appears.