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Example sentences for: connoisseur

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The art dealer cultivates his aura (and the more mystical aura of the art object) by casting himself as a connoisseur rather than as a merchant.
"To the inexpert," he writes in one place, "footnotes look like deep root systems, solid and fixed; to the connoisseur, however, they reveal themselves as anthills, swarming with constructive and combative activity."
Mike is supposed to be an honest connoisseur of card playing nature, a master whose expertise derives from spotting "tells," from "watching the player, not the cards."
The last must-see in Yokohama is Sankei-en, originally the estate of wealthy silk merchant and art connoisseur Hara Tomitaro, who opened his garden to the public in 1906.
The well-known scholar James Cahill, who wrote the essay on painting for the exhibition catalog, tells of taking a Chinese connoisseur through the European painting collection of the National Gallery in Washington.