Sentence examples for of dilettantism from inspiring English sources

Ms. Mitchell readily acknowledges that she is vulnerable to charges of dilettantism.

But McEnroe hated having to deal with journalists and their presumptions of dilettantism.

As lovely as it is sincere, the album betrays no whiff of dilettantism, no hint of irony.

At first, she was skeptical of dilettantism, telling him, "Every time a high-tech company goes public in California, there are eight more goat-cheese farms".

Kees presents a stubborn case; there are few accusations more withering than that of dilettantism, and his own multitasking seems to have been powered by self-exasperation.

As Nails O'Reilly Duquesne, an unlikely society lady whose favored charity project is rehabilitating pickpockets, burglars and other lowlifes to the high life of dilettantism.

She faced opposition from rabbis who felt Madonna's adoption of the Kabbalah was sacrilegious and a case of celebrity dilettantism.

Diane Keaton's design fixation bears not a trace of celebrity dilettantism.

He grows out of his dilettantism and promiscuity even as Paul slides perilously in the other direction.

He married a rather plain woman from an intellectually illustrious family, with whom he never succeeded in having children, and settled down in South Kensington to a life of scientific dilettantism.

And by reviewers: "So few of them have devised an intelligent way to review both the original and its translation within the space limitations imposed by the publication.... Their inability to do so is a product of intransigent dilettantism and tenacious amateurism, the menacing two-headed monster that runs rampant through the inhospitable landscape peopled by those who write reviews".