dilettantism

All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.

There was nothing of that dilettantism in the woman standing at the podium.

They were always in good faith and perished because of their dilettantism.

Mathematical dilettantism, alas, is not what it used to be.

Other actors take to singing with a fierce dilettantism, and it shows.

What could have felt like dilettantism was instead a moving expression of exploratory ambition.

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid."

All dilettantism can only lead to bad results.

We've had dilettantism in the private sectors, and athletes are tripped up by this nonsense.

He describes his book as "not a work of scholarship but of dilettantism."

In the past, interdisciplinary studies were sometimes ridiculed as dilettantism, along the line of "if you can't do anything, try everything."

This philosophy is what keeps his musical wanderlust from becoming dilettantism.

On the other hand, the speed with which she abandoned ship to go back to Italy smacks a little of dilettantism.

Ms. Mitchell readily acknowledges that she is vulnerable to charges of dilettantism.

Unlike the blogosphere, which was made by pricey dilettantism.

Leonardo's seeming indifference to the survival of his work almost verges on dilettantism.

In comparison with despair, skepticism is characterized by a certain amount of dilettantism and superficiality.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy.

By trading away some dilettantism, Mr. Lowe has found new conviction.

It is a kind of dilettantism.

Frye elaborates upon this definition, calling it "a satire on cultural dilettantism."

Due to its musical dilettantism, the band was not taken seriously by black metallers for a long time.

It was the flowering of geographic dilettantism.

All this is no mere dilettantism.

But McEnroe hated having to deal with journalists and their presumptions of dilettantism.