Voorbeelden van dilettante

• Is he a pretentious postmodern dilettante barely concealing his limitations behind mannered overwrought wordplay and the needless over-ornamentation of derivative rock songs and genre pastiches?

• This disc reveals a fine composer, not a dilettante hiding behind an unusual tuning.

• What the dilettante think - that knowledge of any intellectual matter is a cause for intellectual pleasure - is false.

• There is a sense that such practitioners are considered somewhat dilettante to this avowedly 'working-class theologian'.

• He pursued 'a dilettante interest' in the matter for some time but a definite opportunity arose in 1896.

• Here, his interventions were frequent - at daily conferences - and direct, though his dilettante, arbitrary and intransigent interference was often disastrously counter-productive.

• Marsh was not a musician by profession but trained as a lawyer and for his entire life considered himself no more than a musical dilettante.

• In other words, the intellectual exclusivity and associated creativity which underpinned the world of the public intellectual has been paradoxically replaced by a dilettante and moribund intellectual culture.

• Shapin (1974, 100) reported that in 1860 it was argued that the society should not exclude the dilettante or amateur.

• Issawi is on one level an economist; on another, he is a historian; and on a third, he is a dilettante in the true sense of the word.

• I will come later to the needs of the dilettante.

• We cannot make do with any dilettante handling of problems of that nature.

• They have a dilettante approach to the realites of the countryside and of wildlife.

• Let us face the fact that most students in universities do not intend when they leave them to lead some dilettante existence.

• We must say 'no' to the passive and dilettante attitude of governments that are making life easy for the pirates.