Word: dilettantish
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Waiting in the Loeb's lounge for a Rivals rehearsal, he talked candidly about Harvard's dilettantish attitude toward theater...
...necessity of working for a grade discourages him. Moreover, it is hard to see what real benefit can come to him from taking a course pass-fail if he has not the interest to take it otherwise. Such an option only discourages real understanding of other fields by favoring dilettantish exposure instead, and it should be eliminated...
...landslide. Reporters talked aimlessly with such pundits as Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Late in the evening, even Eric Sevareid was at a loss for his specialty, the orotund, empty phrase. In desperation he began to pick the brain of Luigi Barzini, author of The Italians and a dilettantish follower of McGovern's campaign...
...Strangelove. Viewing the two young lovers juxtaposed with Kubrick's maniac militarists gives the lie to the former's life-style. Even to rather lethargic men of good heart disaffected by the chaos last spring, all Korty's emphasis on such personal virtues as civility and vegetarianism seemed dilettantish, ultimately self-gratifying; the moral foundation of the kids in riverrun is perhaps not far removed from that of their parents. Perhaps riverrun is even a reactionary film...
...only side, of course. When Trudeau first ran for Prime Minister three years ago, he was regarded by many Canadians as something of an enfant terrible; brash, controversial, a dilettantish leftist who had even visited Communist China. But gradually, he oozed his way to the core of the political establishment, promising the nation that he would deal with Quebec's blossoming separatist movement in a way that would unify Canada, not rend it apart...