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Значения термина dilettantism на английском

The practice, quality, or character of an amateur or amateurish performance.

Использование термина dilettantism на английском
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To her firm spirit the idea of working in gloves savoured of dilettantism.
Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl
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My wife must consider herself quite above a reasonably melodious dilettantism.
The Goose Man
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The man's patriotic conscience could be felt struggling with his dilettantism.
Missing
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What finicking dilettantism-wasever such antic, lisping, affecting fantastico?
My Tropic Isle
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Its dilettantism has infected the whole public sector.
The Guardian
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A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy.
Essays — Second Series
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Their critics built up their impotence to issue from dilettantism into a theory, an intolerant theory.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End
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They, too, read to be distracted, choosing an emasculate literature which panders to their essential dilettantism.
Personality in Literature
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And yet these grim old walls are not a dilettantism and dubiety; they are an earnest fact.
Past and Present
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George regarded the short thoroughfare made notorious by the dilettantism, the modishness, and the witticisms of art.
The Roll-Call
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Conversational, dilettantism and immensely self-satisfied, it is an exercise in intellectual trickery yet possesses charm and humour.
The Irish Times
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Society divides naturally into classes, dilettantism and pococurantism dawdling luxuriously here, labor at hand-grip with Destiny there.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
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Charlatans among the leaders of the new thought, and society dilettantism, both came under his merciless lash.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
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It is pure dilettantism, again, to seek the moral of Irish commotions in the insurrection of La Vendée.
Studies in Literature
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But as soon as their dilettantism had given place to the rational methods of computers, the problems were solved.
The End of Man?
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All my so-called study of modern life in former days was the merest dilettantism, mere conceit and boyish pedantry.
Thyrza
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