Connoisseur Sentence Examples

He was a well-known connoisseur of art.

He was a man of wide knowledge, a connoisseur in art and music, and the friend of most of the leading authors of his time.

A typical academician was the poet, antiquary and connoisseur, Nils Fredrik Sander (1828-1900).

The armory was not the collection of a wealthy connoisseur; this was the personal armory of a man accustomed to killing often.

Many of KOuns sculptures appear unfinished to eyes trained in Occidental galleries, whereas the Japanese connoisseur detects evidence of a technical feat in their seeming roughness.

I also like to think of myself as a bit of a coffee connoisseur!

There is a radical difference between the points of view of the Japanese and the Western connoisseur in estimating tbe Japanese merits of sculpture in metal.

The sight of this would drive a real connoisseur wild.

The pasta excellence kit is for the true homemade pasta connoisseur.

I am becoming a connoisseur of these sermons over the years.

They provide nothing for the serious kebab connoisseur who really wants to test his chili resistance levels to the limit.

It is encouraging to see yet another industry response to the Scotch single malt connoisseur 's desire.

This is an extremely rewarding trek and one for the connoisseur of wild places that remains largely untouched by tourism.

If you are a cosmetic connoisseur, then you probably have a long list of favorite MAC makeup colors and products.

Perhaps the aged master and connoisseur regarded as barely less trying the hard necessity of parting with a beloved antique bust of Faustina.

Qianlong, perhaps the most cultured Chinese emperor of all time, was a great connoisseur of jades.

The perfect gift for the would be wine connoisseur in your life.

The calorie-conscious Daiquiri connoisseur should instead use fresh-squeezed limes, or at least fresh lime juice.

This type of selection is almost unmatched, so its worth a look for the avid hat connoisseur.

At Local Wine Events and Food Reference, you can find local wine enthusiasts and stay up to date on festivals, new release tastings and connoisseur functions.

These wines have been rated a "92" or above by Wine Spectator Magazine, world renowned wine connoisseur Robert Parker and Taster's Guild International.

Steeped in a long wine making history, Hunter Valley wines will please any palate, from the novice to the connoisseur.

If you are a seasoned connoisseur or if you know that your tastes are outstanding, you may opt to volunteer as a wine judge.

If you aren't a wine connoisseur, it can be a challenge to choose the right one.

Whether you are a model, a fan or a connoisseur of all things body-building related, the Ironman swimsuit DVD collection does more than just showcase the gorgeous ladies of fitness.

For the coffee connoisseur, a KitchenAid coffee grinder is an absolute necessity.

If you are not a serious coffee connoisseur, you can easily get away with a smaller model.

If you are a coffee connoisseur, you will want to make sure that you read coffee grinder ratings before you make an investment towards that perfect cup of morning coffee.

For the serious connoisseur, check out the Coffee Geek.

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Some might view his standards as being finicky, but he's really just a natural born connoisseur of the finer things in life.

Gourmet green coffee beans provide the coffee connoisseur with the freshest beans available on the market.

Not to worry, you will soon have the knowledge of an experienced lingerie connoisseur.

Would you like to improve your Spanish, learn how to paint, or become a wine connoisseur?

Their sheer volume is enough to confuse even the most savvy bath connoisseur!

It was the most piquant feature of his life that he, one of the gilded youth, a connoisseur in wines, and a learned man to boot, had become agitator and the champion of the working man.

That the results achieved with these different materials are not comparable is a fact which every connoisseur must admit.

It need scarcely be said that tiles have rather increased in value than deteriorated in the eyes of the connoisseur, that the ornamentation of metal-work, wood carving and inlaying, gem and seal engraving, are exquisite of their kind, and that the carpets manufactured by skilled workmen, when left to themselves and their native patterns, are to a great extent unrivalled.

That theory is based upon the fact that after the opening of the country to foreign intercourse in 1857, hundreds of inferior specimens of netsuke were chiselled by inexpert hands, purchased wholesale by treaty-port merchants, and sent to New York, London and Paris, where, though they brought profit to the exporter, they also disgusted the connoisseur and soon earned discredit for their whole class.

In a general sense the European or American connoisseur is much less exacting than the Japanese.

In some cases the whole object is a modern reproduction in electro-plate, but more often really old articles from which the original plating has been worn off in course of time have been replated, both equally being in the eyes of the connoisseur, unworthy of serious attention and comparatively valueless.

Okamuia Yasutaro, commonly called Shozan, produces specimens which only a very acute connoisseur can distinguish from the work of Nomura Ninsei; Tanzan Rokuros half-tint enamels and soft creamy glazes would have stood high in any epoch; Taizan YOhei produces Awata faience not inferior to that of former days; Kagiya SObei worthily supports the reputation of the KinkOzan ware; Kawamoto Eijiro has made to the order of a well-known KiOto firm many specimens now figuring in foreign collections as old masterpieces; and ItO TOzan succeeds in decorating faience with seven colors sons couverte (black, green, blue, russetred, tea-brown, purple and peach), a feat never before accomplished.

Of the artistic periodicals we may signalize the Art Journal (1849), Portfolio (1870), Magazine of Art (1878-1904), Studio (1893), Connoisseur (1901), and Burlington (1903).

At supper after the opera he described to Dolokhov with the air of a connoisseur the attractions of her arms, shoulders, feet, and hair and expressed his intention of making love to her.

In the eyes of a Chinese connoisseur, no blue-and-white porcelain worthy of consideration exists, or ever has existed, except the kai-pien-yao, with its imponderable pdle, its wax-like surface, and its rich, glowing blue, entirely free from superficiality or garishness and broken into a thousand tints by the microscopic crackle of the glaze.