1. Boy-scout amateurishness, they claim, is on the way out; a professional command-and-control centre on the way in.

2. Sadly, the underlying amateurishness of the organization could not stand the strain and the Guild disintegrated in 1888.

3. Professionalism was continually invoked as the primary means of improvement, whereas amateurishness was mocked as a laughable relic.

4. In the case of Eddie he Eagle?Edwards, failed British ski-jumper in the 1986 Winter Olympics, laughable amateurishness was celebrated nationally.

5. In the case of Eddie the Eagle Edwards, failed British ski-jumper in the 1986 Winter Olympics, laughable amateurishness was celebrated nationally.

6. The greater the failures became, the more obstinately his incurable amateurishness came to the fore.