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Thanks for letting a humble dilletante word slinger participate.
PARTY TIME 2010
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Come to think of it, that makes him a paradox, or at least a dilletante who tries to play both sides against the center.
Matthew Yglesias » Andrew Sullivan Thinks I Live in Manhattan 2009
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The organizers -- Covington & Burling attorney and lobbyist Ellen Eliasoph, Hollywood movie man and Expo dilletante Nick Winslow, and former Bush Under Secretary of Commerce Frank Lavin -- have a history of fudging the truth and skirting the law.
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So let him go on sulking on his own blog applauded by his fan club led by the dilletante Joseph Wallace.
At Long Last I Understand Mythicism - I Think! James F. McGrath 2010
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So let him go on sulking on his own blog applauded by his fan club led by the dilletante Joseph Wallace.
At Long Last I Understand Mythicism - I Think! James F. McGrath 2010
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The organizers -- Covington & Burling attorney and lobbyist Ellen Eliasoph, Hollywood movie man and Expo dilletante Nick Winslow, and former Bush Under Secretary of Commerce Frank Lavin -- have a history of fudging the truth and skirting the law.
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As for agreeing to disagree, I am all for that, but I trust you will understand and respect the fact that Greek food and its preparation is not something I picked up as a dilletante.
Recipe for Salmon "Kleftiko" (Σολομός Κλέφτικος) and Kleftiko: Its Modern Meaning Laurie Constantino 2008
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By the time November rolls around they will have a huge portion of the public believing Obama is a sex-crazed dilletante who is in this only for his own self-agrandizement, an elitist who not only doesn't care about regular people, he doesn't care about America!
McCain Camp's Comparison Of Obama To Britney: Defining Him As Puffed-Up Dandy 2009
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By the time she was done she had bought 10 Picassos who disliked her considering her a dilletante, 40 Ernsts, 8 Miros, 4 Margrittes, 3 Man Rays, 3 Dalis, 1 Klee, 1 Chagall among others.
Archive 2009-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009
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Why American liberals feel the need to canonize Mrs. Roosefelt, when the blood of millions of dead and displaced Arabs are on her hands, is a continuation of the colonial racism that is inherent in the limosuine liberal wine & cheese crowd who permeate the dilletante websites such as this one.
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