Dilettantishly

Horace Walpole dilettantishly, Sir Joshua Reynolds professionally, Blake prophetically, Gilpin in the manner (not the bad manner) of the gifted amateur, and devoting himself chiefly to “the picturesque” in nature, had occupied themselves with it in the eighteenth.

Moreover, communism will lead to an unusual amount of quarrelling; those who work faithfully will feel aggrieved when they see that those who work dilettantishly receive and consume a full portion.

Superficially, of course, the art of this musician, so airy and dilettantishly brilliant, has little affair with the French State.

Certain ministers and church agencies have caught glimmers of these implications, and have entered this field,—timidly, daintily, dilettantishly.

“The danger is of complete superficiality in all directions, that you do nothing well, a lot of things . . . ‘dilettante-ishly,’ ” she said.