Physically he was the
Physically he was the connoisseur’s connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. Craig Claiborne
Connoisseur
Over the course of
Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them. Constance Hale
It would be asking
It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs – that way starvation lies. Claude Monet
One of the main
One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It’s why he found shooting on set boring – because he had already composed the film in his head. Camille Paglia
American universities are organized
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone. Camille Paglia
Only utopian liberals could
Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs. Camille Paglia
Children are the true
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value. Bel Kaufman
…stories about [the German
…stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms’s rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. ‘This is the Brahms of my cellar,’ he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master’s glass. Brahms … Read more
Your thin white face,
Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect. Angela Carter
They were connoisseurs of
They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night. Angela Carter