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  • I prefer citing ole Oxford here – Dilettante: One who interests himself in an art or science merely as a pastime and without serious aim or study.

    Women Grow Business » “Small Businesses Can No Longer Afford To Be Dilettantes When Hiring” 2010

  • 'Dilettante bureaucrats, journalists and intellectuals play with extremists and their ideas with the insouciance of men and women who know that they will never have to suffer the consequences of coping with extremists in power.'

    At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run | Nick Cohen 2011

  • Every dog would be dropping Dilettante chocolates and the homeless would perform world-class contemporary ballets on our vibrantly walkable streets that are lined with mixed-use commercial/residential housing that was filled with affluent diverse workforce community members.

    McGinn Says His Rail Plan Will Be Affordable, Run on Surface Streets « PubliCola 2010

  • I prefer citing ole Oxford here – Dilettante: One who interests himself in an art or science merely as a pastime and without serious aim or study.

    Women Grow Business » 2010 » January 2010

  • Dilettante bureaucrats, journalists and intellectuals play with extremists and their ideas with the insouciance of men and women who know that they will never have to suffer the consequences of coping with extremists in power.

    At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run | Nick Cohen 2011

  • I prefer citing ole Oxford here – Dilettante: One who interests himself in an art or science merely as a pastime and without serious aim or study.

    Women Grow Business » jillfoster 2010

  • I felt a little embarrassed, because he actually knows what he's talking about, and I'm just following yet another of my many obsessions really, I should rename this blog The Dilettante.

    The Outsider and the Idea of Africa 2010

  • I felt a little embarrassed, because he actually knows what he's talking about, and I'm just following yet another of my many obsessions really, I should rename this blog The Dilettante.

    Archive 2010-04-01 2010

  • Just imagine, table after table full of samples from some of the best chocolatiers from Seattle and the country: Amano Artisan Chocolate, Cocoa Chai, Theo Chocolate, Fiori Chocolatiers, Posh Chocolate, Dilettante Chocolates, Oh! Chocolate.

    Seattle Bon Vivant: 2008

  • He goes into Nobility: Dilettante, travelling thespacelanes, and for his rank of “Wastrel,” he gets Carouse 1.

    Mongoose Traveller In Playtest « Geek Related 2008

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  • Dilettante- A lover of the fine arts (Websters Dictionary, pg. 107)

    September 27, 2010