I myself must confess that I was distinctly idle and dilettante both as a boy at Eton and as a Cambridge undergraduate.
The danger was that he would adopt a dilettante life.
The foremost dilettante of Brussels crowded around the stage, all the musical ladies in society sat together in the front rows of the parquet.
She had played tennis in a dilettante fashion before, just to amuse herself; now, in a spirit of opposition, she began to train.
Left alone, the girls worked for some time in silence, Katrine with whole-hearted absorption, and Gwethyn in a moredilettante fashion.
No dilettante movement this return to Roman Catholicism.
Both father and son were dilettante composers and instrumental players--the father on the violoncello, the son on the pianoforte.
Just as the artistic side of him tired quickly of one place, one set of types, so his animal nature was essentially of the dilettante rather than the enthusiast.
There are, next, the unwitting ordilettante anarchists.
But he copied a great deal too much of his master's dilettante attitude to religion as a whole, and, as we shall see, he adopted and carried a great deal further M.
These men are at any rate 'thorough'; they are not dilettante dalliers between two opinions.
Hugh had hardly mentioned it to his father beforehand, but he had dedicated the book to him, though he imagined that his father must consider poetry a dilettante kind of occupation.
Hugh was quite aware that his literary position was of a dilettante kind, and that he had done nothing to justify the hope that success in literature was within his reach.
He had not arrived at any real mastery of either Greek or Latin, and it seemed to him, reflecting on this process long afterwards, that the system had encouraged in him a naturally faulty and dilettante bent in literature.
But the contact with realities into which her dilettante little war activities brought her was too slight to make the deep impression.
But a dilettante interest in art is a very different thing from creative activity; and an amateur pursuit of science is apt to be superficial and not to penetrate to the heart of the matter.
The present fashion is rather in favor of a dilettante interest in art or literature.
At bottom there was no great difference between these ideas and Olivier's: but, by a secret instinct for balance and proportion, he was never so dilettante as when he heard provocative words thrown out.
Even the most dilettante of them when they came into power became like Oriental despots: they had a mania for ordering everything, and let nothing alone: they were skeptical in mind and tyrannical in temper.
They barred the way to others, and filled the papers, which styled themselves the organs of the people, with their dilettante decadence and their struggle for life.
And we who are professing teachers of literature have times of abnormal sensitiveness to the scorn of the dilettante critics who call us academical and pedagogical.
The spirit of dilettante adventure which pervades the mediaeval romances gives them a tone entirely different from that of the epics.
For many reasons he is not the sort of man to invite much attention from journalistic, academic, and dilettante writers.
On the other hand, the gardener, a fighter in the struggle for food, finds the impartial views of the dilettante asking for "companionship with nature" quite unthinkable.
Between the two acts a dilettante executed the first Allegro of a clarinet concerto with much ability and a tolerably good tone, but without the least taste.
Besides her, a dilettante attracted the attention of the auditory by singing several buffo things in the genuine Italian caricature style.
Nicholas, and the command went forth that there should be no more fireworks, no more dilettante philosophising or political aspirations.
In true dilettante style the fashionable young philosophers culled from the newest books the newest thoughts and theories, and retailed them in the salon or the ballroom.
There was a youth who came to call on the Misses Cole, who had a great deal of money, and who was a dilettante in art.
A strange and terrible reality, that, to this sometimedilettante in life.
An excellent companion sketch to that of the dilettantevicar is provided in that of the poor curate--the scholar, gentleman, and devout Christian, struggling against abject poverty to support his large family.
