| Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy. |
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| He wants to be a character from Brideshead Revisited sipping brandy Alexanders and being seduced by hopelessly wealthy dilettantes. |
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| In the available literature on film studies, dabblers and dilettantes abound. |
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| This leaves projects open to abuse, either by well-meaning dilettantes or intentional disrupters. |
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| But there was a bias against infographics, as if visually representing data were for dilettantes. |
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| You are a highly seasoned professional committed to the cause while they are half-hearted dilettantes who are very likely to crack under pressure. |
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| The Rufini family has painted for generations, most certainly as dilettantes, but nevertheless not without some talent. |
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| There is a purity that extends from north Orlando to this gathering of gaudy dilettantes. |
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| I've seen the difference between gifted musicians who were complete dilettantes and those who were only moderately gifted but who worked hard. |
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| The reality is that many of our youth have gone beyond that grammar school education so suited to the dilettantes of long-time European metropolitan salons. |
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| Media pundits can be opinionated dilettantes, but they can also possess the kind of knowledge that provides real insights into the subject under discussion. |
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| Exactly for these dilettantes many collections are published with dances and arrangements of airs for one or more cornets or other casts with cornet à pistons. |
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| Certainly, decorators and dilettantes were thin on the ground, but many speculators are connoisseurs who relish the prospect of picking up work at lower prices and waiting for the next surge. |
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| Whereas until the end of the 19th century there were writers practiced in the art of libretto writing and thoroughly schooled in the repertoire, in the 20th century, it was left in the hands of dilettantes. |
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