artiste
Example Sentences
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Entirely unconcerned with the client’s gustatory enjoyment, Lucy considers herself an artiste, creating food for unsophisticated palates, and Chao plays her with the utmost seriousness.
From New York Times
“While Mr. Saint Laurent perhaps wasn’t the most modest person in the world,” he said, “I think he desperately wanted to be considered an artist. He was an artiste manqué.”
From New York Times
Despite such grand ambitions, Garfield does not come across as a pretentious artiste.
From Washington Post
James Dreyfus, another Notting Hill cast member, said he had been "one of the loveliest, most gentle artistes I've ever worked with".
From BBC
Local newspaper, The Inverness Courier, had labelled Spurs as a "great combination of brilliant artistes, true sportsmen who play the game as it should be played in a gentlemanly spirit, combined with science".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.