September 16, 2009
I am finding it difficult
I am finding it difficult to keep a civil tongue in my head these days. Thanks to the party of whiners and screamers and anti-anything positive or useful, the G.O.P., the Gross Old Pigs, the Greedy, Overbearing Panderers, the Ghastly Officious Preeners, the GodAwful Offputting Pricks, and their screeching, alcohol-and-drug-fueled standard-bearers, such reeking excrescences as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. I cannot summon language that's powerful enough to reflect just how much I would like to wring their necks, personally, with every ounce of tennis-and-piano-and-drum-playing strength I could summon in my hands. It's hard enough to discuss difficult issues without having to deal with hysterical dimwits such as these. So, suffice it to say, I would not weep at news of their banishment to another planet, another solar system, best yet, a completely different galaxy.
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- From 1700s Italy, "dilettante" originally meant "lover of the arts," but became a pejorative when professionalism took hold during the 18th century. A dilettante became a mere lover of art as opposed to one who earned a living from it. Today, the word refers to a poseur, or one pretending to be an artist. synonyms: dabbler, sciolist, dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic Usage Examples “It’s better up here away from the phonies and the dilettantes. Here I can do what I want and no one comes to sneer. You’re not a sneerer, are you?” - Flowers for Algernon ‘There were no scientists in Stuart England,’ we are told, ‘and all the men we have grouped together under that heading were in their varying degrees dilettantes.’ - The Invention of Science Charles wasn’t a dilettante; he was serious about the breeding and created his own new lines of pigeons. - Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith source: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/dilettante
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