Not until the third act does the great Wagner arbitrate in the struggle between amateurishness and theatricality in the music, though at all points his epoch-making stagecraft asserts itself with a force that tempts us to treat the whole work as if it were on the Wagnerian plane of Tannhauser's account of his pilgrimage in the third act.   anvd [Please select]

I complained of its amateurishness of design.   anvd [Please select]

So Delilah may have wooed Samson to slumber, with the same practised touch, the same absence of amateurishness or spontaneity.   anvd [Please select]

There should be no suggestion of amateurishness.   anvd [Please select]