To Christophe the proceeding seemed ungallant; but he was so sick of the anarchical dilettantism of the Parisian artists that he was delighted to find men ready to have their heads broken for a cause, however foolish it might be.
This dilettantism had wrought much harm to him, too, if only in this,--that it had made him a skeptic.
Through the literature of this science, which was widely diffused even before the invention of printing, a dilettantism also grew up which as far as possible followed in the steps of the masters.
The idea of providing against the dangers of dilettantism by a rational "organisation of labour" is already ancient.
Dilettantism is incompatible with a certain elevation of mind, and with a certain degree of "moral perfection," but not with technical proficiency.
Dilettantism was then just beginning to bear sway, especially over the pianoforte, and its dominion speedily extended to vocal music, where the "Lied" became its peculiar form of expression.
If the essence of dilettantism is to be contented with imperfect attainment, I fear that all educated people must be considered dilettants.
But the Emperor himself was quite as much a dilettant as Prince Albert; though their dilettantism did not lie in the same directions.
He had a remarkable faculty for imparting to others a passion for work, a most beneficial power in the days when dilettantism was one of the worst banes of Russian society.
He was apparently the first to perceive the true genius and power concealed under the foppishness and dilettantism of Moussorgsky's early manhood.
Conversation fosters criticism and dilettantism alike, and these are Wilde's most noticeable characteristics.
So soon as every able-bodied citizen is by law a soldier, the administration of both army and navy will be watched, criticised, and supported with an intelligence which will no longer tolerate dilettantism in authority.
The party system destroys the sincerity of our political life, and introduces a dangerous dilettantism into the administration of public business.
The party system has another consequence which will not stand scrutiny in the light of reality; it is dilettantism in the conduct of the nation's principal business.
Mammonism has seized some portion of the message of Nature to man; and seizing that, and following it, will seize and appropriate more and more of Nature's message: but Dilettantism has missed it wholly.
And yet these grim old walls are not a dilettantism and dubiety; they are an earnest fact.
There is in this theory a ferocious absurdity, a Neronian dilettantism which repels me to the very depths of my being.
Only the dilettantism of the studio; that dilettantism which loosens the moral no less than the intellectual fibre, and which is as fatal to rectitude of action as to correctness of reasoning power, would make a different choice.
His excited dilettantism and his extreme instability of mind made him seek the company of men the most opposite.
Their critics built up their impotence to issue fromdilettantism into a theory, an intolerant theory.
Immersed into blissful dilettantism as in a warm bath, we are half awake, half dreaming.
I almost believe dilettantismto be the fate of all Ploszowskis, to which I will refer later on, when I come to write about myself.
Chapter III Gospel of Dilettantism But after all, the Gospel of Dilettantism, producing a Governing Class who do not govern, nor understand in the least that they are bound or expected to govern, is still mournfuler than that of Mammonism.
And if any person was positively cut out to counteract his tendency to dilettantism and nonchalance and to keep him working energetically, profitably and with a conscious object that person was Anna.
It was this same trait of dilettantism which made him now go through the old family documents as seriously as though he were investigating some important secrets of the past.
He objects to Wrede that to be consistent he must himself go over to radical dilettantism (22).
He charges Schweitzer actually with dilettantism and blind bias which cause every literary consideration to be lacking (25 sq.
In the world of letters, the spirit of dilettantism was more strongly felt than in art, Swedish literature, after its several glorious epochs, experiencing one of its most stagnant periods.
Swedish literature, after the period ofdilettantism and epigones, has, during the reign of Oscar II.
In the most national of Swedish cultural elements, the song, the epoch of dilettantism found its most beautiful and lasting expressions.
