Word: dilettante
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Beside him, Henry Miller is but a cheerfully smutty college sophomore, Sade a dilettant aristocrat of eccentric habits, Gide a genteel old lady sedately cultivating nightshade in her little kitchen garden.
This trait is a nuisance for her adoring, rich, hard-working publisher husband (Ronald Colman). For Caroline's heart is warm and wide and susceptible to dilettant males who are forever seeing "the essential Caroline," to flashy Latins looking for a wealthy woman who can "ride and shoot and...
Conversation at Midnight brings together a priest, an artist, a writer of advertising copy, a Communist poet, a rich broker, a Liberal dilettant and a slick magazine writer for after-dinner dialog in verse. Poet Millay, who once acted at Vassar and Provincetown, asks her readers to think of her...
The more elaborate is illustrated by that brilliant but elusive lady who flashes about the dilettant magazines in purple seas of color-reproduction under the pseudonym of "Fish." The other illustrator, also an Englishwoman, is Hope Weston, who says she has tried to dip her paintbrush in star stuff to...
We believe that patriotism, despite all its modern caricatures at the hands of sentimentality and hypocrisy, will never be too commonplace to be honored; and that any institution of culture, unless its culture is simply dilettant, will always be eager to pay its due share of honor. Harvard owes a...
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