neophyte

More and more, Nichols sought out talented people with complementary skills, so that even as a neophyte film director, his movies looked gorgeous, thanks to experienced craftspeople behind the scenes.

For the aficionado or the neophyte, Comics is a useful overview of a richly creative period in a burgeoning art.

Reagan is a political neophyte in a fairly conventional campaign for governor of California.

Southerland was a political neophyte who owned a string of funeral homes when he won his seat in 2010.

The other thing the film got wrong was the premise that David was a neophyte, better suited for interviewing the Bee Gees.

I will confess, with some shame, that I am a Saunders neophyte.

Assarac smiled with the good-humoured superiority of an adept condescending to the crude intelligence of a neophyte.

Beladon looked on his chief with the admiration of a neophyte for some grand professor of his art.

Selina, in the drawing-room, diligently fingered and classed brown-black pressed weeds of her neophyte's botany-folios.

"Otherwise I should have preferred starving to coming here," answered the laconic neophyte.

But if, on the one hand, we had lost the neophyte's fire, we had perhaps gained a little in tolerance.