amateurism

1 First, it has to be said, is the amateurism of the performance itself: an awful, attention-hustling racket, musically horrible, lyrically adolescent; poetry-free provocation.

2 She has a highbrow’s scorn for watery aesthetic values muddying the difference between amateurism and expertise, but it is tempered by sympathy for the human drive to connect with one another.

3 “Asking everyone onstage to participate in everything is not a spirit of amateurism but of willingness to test one’s creativity, of finding beauty in simple things.”

4 Some smaller conferences may refuse to offer anything at all, believing the concept of amateurism is too important to lose.

5 Where there was bloodless professionalism, they brought reckless amateurism.

6 With a show like this, one might expect amateurism throughout; bits from performers that fell short, undeveloped.

7 His decision to begin writing book reviews, he said, was probably prompted “by a dim sense that the humanities and arts need repeated injections of amateurism.”

8 What surprised me about Darling Companion was the awkwardness and even amateurism of the filmmaking, despite its veteran director.

9 They weren’t fetishizing noise or arrogance or amateurism.

10 Unlike so many recordings of English works from earlier generations of conductor-knights, with their whiff of patrician amateurism, Mr. Elder’s are distinguished by their preparation and refinement.

11 In “Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character,” Jack Hitt investigates the tradition of American amateurism in various fields, from politics to astronomy to bird watching.

12 The battle between expertise and amateurism is all over “Relax,” and was all over the group’s album-release concert at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday night.

13 New rules on amateurism allow payment for promotional work.

新的业余工作条例规定，做促销工作可获得报酬。

14 “I didn’t like Sanullim’s unique amateurism,” Mr. Go said, “but I was impressed by their attempts at different genres, especially psychedelic rock.”

15 Wright was not an actor, and his amateurism translates awkwardly into Bigger’s youth on screen.

16 It celebrated a time of amateurism that’s probably been lost in New York.

17 The West was convinced the Commies were cheating by paying their athletes to train — thus violating Olympic rules on amateurism — and injecting them with steroids.

18 That is to say, I am for amateurism in all fields.

换一句话说，我主张各方面的人士都有业余活动的习惯。

19 “It was like something that sprang forth one day and was just recorded,” Mr. Sante said, recalling how it stood apart from the confrontational amateurism that defined the period’s independent films.

20 Were we merely looking for the nearest facsimile of the professional model or was there some special quality of amateurism we could discern?

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