dilettante

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• The standard critique is that guiding companies are hauling rich, inexperienced dilettantes up the mountain who create traffic jams and make bad decisions, putting everyone at greater risk.

• Delivering water helps “dispel the nagging guilt of a slumming dilettante, but only a little” Hardin writes, while wondering whether it’s possible to make a difference in a place “where the devastation extends back decades.”

• Suggestions ranged from the dilettante purse designer played by Jennifer Coolidge in the original series to Leslie Jones, who seemed to have Samantha confused with Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

• Brands to knowAs with most electronics, certain brands become synonymous with certain types of products because in this space it’s better to be a master of one or two things than a dilettante in a lot of things.

• The fired host unloads on Current TV, accusing Al Gore of being a dilettante and co-owner Joel Hyatt of blackmail.

• But the director publicly clashed with Norton (calling him a “narcissistic dilettante”).

• He fully admits his chronicle of Galliano's shows from 2004 to 2010 was “the work of a dilettante.”

• I finally feel like I can call myself a writer now, rather than writing being just something I do on the side, as a dilettante.

• This deficiency in technique must even debar him from claiming any higher signification than that of a clever dilettante.

• He had dropped in in a dilettante spirit to hear the spirited debate, and the judges were greatly honored.