Example Sentences

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“You don’t see them walking around, and stopping in a gallery, and buying art, and trying to cultivate connoisseurship with their siblings or their children,” said Valerie Wade, a San Francisco gallerist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The company, which started 15 years ago, has been described as "elevating toy buying to an act of trendy connoisseurship" and praised for embracing non-traditional designs, which have made them a hit with collectors.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025

“It does require great knowledge, photographic memory and ability to understand, connoisseurship to identify and group them by author,” said Sean Hemingway, the current lead curator of Greek and Roman art at the Met.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023

It references an artwork as a signal of connoisseurship but actually dematerializes the act of consumption.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2021

I did not appreciate his air of connoisseurship.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson