| The stigma attached to student films is that they are amateurish, dilettantish and excusable on the grounds that they're made by non-professionals. |
| Most war movies come off as voyeuristic or dilettantish, but there are three that come to mind which don't seem altogether frivolous. |
| If the Czechoslovaks didn't want him, they would make him king of Poland, to be crowned at the Wawel castle in Cracow. Havel confounded those who thought he was too dilettantish to be a proper president. |
| Even at the time, it seemed so: a dilettantish, illiberal, class-infused blot on what was otherwise a British golden age, for politics and the economy as even the ban's reluctant main architect, Tony Blair, later admitted. |
| These are illustrations of how dilettantish much of what passes for environmental protest truly is. |
| It's not that easy to change when you've been functioning in such a purely casual and dilettantish way for so many years. |
