Sample Sentences forconnoisseur (auto-selected)
-
•
He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. (source)connoisseurship = knowledge about and appreciation of
-
•
He's a connoisseur and prides himself on making it from scratch.† (source)
-
•
This like a wine connoisseur dropping a name.† (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
She is a connoisseur of pain the way others are connoisseurs of wine.† (source)
-
•
He had an emergency, he told Dede, but being a connoisseur of fear, she guessed he was afraid.† (source)
-
•
Ricky was a connoisseur of your-mom jokes, but this was apparently more than he could take.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 4 word variations
-
•
The general had been a connoisseur and collector.† (source)
-
•
Billy did not want to see what happened next, and a clerk importuned him to come over and see some really hot stuff they kept under the counter for connoisseurs.† (source)
-
•
Aware that he was looking at a silver two-handled Jacobean mug, and that Hugh Whitbread admired condescendingly with airs of connoisseurship a Spanish necklace which he thought of asking the price of in case Evelyn might like it—still Richard was torpid; could not think or move.† (source)
-
•
Whatever her taste in television-play titles, or her aesthetics in general, a flicker came into her eyes—no more than a flicker, but a flicker—of connoisseurlike, if perverse, relish for her youngest, and only handsome, son's style of bullying.† (source)
-
•
A connoisseur of the latest styles, Mrs. Thomas was dressed this afternoon in a homemade yellow polka-dot dress she'd copied from a magazine profile of Audrey Hepburn.† (source)
-
•
And just as farmers love new, more efficient equipment, farmwives are real connoisseurs of household appliances: whole-house vacuum cleaners mounted in the walls, microwave ovens and Crock-Pots, chest freezers, through-the-door icemakers on refrigerators, heavy duty washers and dryers, pot-scrubbing dishwashers and electric deep fat fryers.† (source)
-
•
Ralph had something of this same quality, this appearance of thinking that life was a matter of connoisseurship; but in Ralph it was an anomaly, a kind of humorous excrescence, whereas in Mr. Osmond it was the keynote, and everything was in harmony with it.† (source)
-
•
Zizi al-Bakari, a connoisseur of art as well as jihadist terror, had regarded the line as proof of the painting's authenticity— and of the authenticity of the beautiful young American woman, a Harvard-educated art historian, who had sold it to him.† (source)
-
•
Among mountaineers and other connoisseurs of geologic form, Everest is not regarded as a particularly comely peak.† (source)
-
•
His reverence for beauty and charm was there for anyone to see and to laugh at, and the ladies of the theater and the court and the houses of pleasure loved his connoisseurship.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)