The meaning of HYPAPANTE is a feast celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox Church on February 2 commemorating primarily the presentation of Jesus and his meeting Simeon and Anna in the temple and secondarily the purification of the Virgin Mary.
Dilettante (Amateur) From a Latin root meaning “to delight in,” the Dilettante is a lover of the fine arts who never rises above the level of an amateur, and to whom the phrase “jack of all trades, master of none” applies. Although the word has the negative connotation of a dabble...
Did you pray to God to fall out of love with me? Cause I do the same but in a different way. I ruined every holiday and hated every game you play. Your wish came true, now you're true blue. You're such a debutante, dilettante, miles of skin to flaunt. You will get what you...
to say the least, overblown, his chapter on “critics’ darlings (which he described as actresses who let their tics do their acting for them) is pretty sexist, and while his chapter on homosexuals in the theater is well-meaning (he wanted more plays like The ...
I am a dilettante. In the best sense of the word, I’m a dilettante. Nonetheless, when going through the art fairs, you see a lot of dilettantish artworks. I felt in very good company and I thought: “If professionals produce dilettantish work,it’s totally OK to be a dilettante. ...
Mike has been writing for a number of years and has published inWired,The Washington Post, andThe Atlantic. His debut novel,The Dilettantes, came out fromFreehand Booksin Calgary in 2013. (I got a hot tip that you can now order signed copies from Mike while supplies last, just go to...
For a girl of twenty to fall in love with an experienced dilettante ten years her senior was nothing out of the way. It was perhaps rarer for such a girl to make up her mind, as did Philippa in Lyon in one night of bitterest soul-searching, that such a relationship was out of the...
I’ve never been very good about adhering to any human-made system for maintaining whatever we mean by “spirit” – I’m a Sunday School dropout and a dilettante pagan, whose cosmology is a patchwork of ideas and images drawn from Buddhism, yoga, myth, and, mostly, beloved stories. So...
January 17, 2017 by musingsofaliterarydilettante Hi everone. Lisa from ANZ Litlovers has rightly castigated me for not posting something about my absence of late, and along with Sue from Whispering Gums she’s gently been prompting me to post *anything*… So, all’s well, I have just ...
of fully recycled materials and distributed by TOPS’ Oxford brand — those familiar makers of the “iconic index cards, composition books, and study tools that propel so many from classroom to career,” as the marketing folks say (completely ignoring the dilettantes who also pay money for ...