He had dawdled over his cigar because he was at heart a dilettante , and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation.

It was unparalleled, undreamed-of, that I, Humphrey Van Weyden, a scholar and a dilettante , if you please, in things artistic and literary, should be lying here on a Bering Sea seal- hunting schooner.

"The pensee writer is to the philosopher what the dilettante is to the artist."

The cottage was far from that standard at present, for Lisbeth's rheumatism had forced her to give up her old habits of dilettante scouring and polishing.

All this admitted, Newman enjoyed his journey, when once he had fairly entered the current, as profoundly as the most zealous dilettante . One's theories, after all, matter little; it is one's humor that is the great thing.

What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante . He has an extraordinary faculty for figures, and audits the books in some of the government departments.

There was in him none of that antiquarian frivolity that we convey by the word " dilettante ".

When Rabourdin sent for him to come down and receive instructions about some particular piece of work, Phellion gave all his mind to it,--listening to every word the chief said, as a dilettante listens to an air at the Opera.

"I really have no mind to turn into a dilettante spiritualist."

VA, who was once the kept lover of Excitable Dilettante , has gone freelance.

DILETTANTE a) The dilettante is a small beetle which survives on cow manure.