Word: craftmanship
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...C.C.I.A. suggests that wary consumers look first at prices. An overcoat made from even the lowest grade of cashmere should cost at least $800 and a sweater $200. Then the buyer should examine the craftmanship. If the lapels and buttonholes are poorly finished, chances are the material is as second- rate as the work...
...interesting as the question is, whether Sarah Phillips is autobiography or fiction is irrelevant. As fiction, the stories reveal a fine craftmanship; some passage are as lightly knit as poetry. Describing Sarah in Paris. Lee is not afraid to be flippant about subjects that cause other writers to tread lightly--if they tread at all: "I had graduated from Harvard, having just turned twenty-one. I was tall and lanky and light-skinned, quite pretty in a nervous sort of way. I came out of college equipped with an unfocused snobbery, vague literary aspirations and a lively appetite for white...
...upward movement to the composition like a requiem sung to exalt and commemorate the dead. It echoes of a Gothic Cathedral's flying buttresses, and yet it is all on a small scale and an observer could either wax metaphysical about such images or simply enjoy Thompson's wood-craftmanship and skill with pattern...
...small base and, even worse, to make the wrinkles in the stomach so convincing. The question of why the artist chose to depict two naked boys playing soccer becomes completely irrelevant. It merely provides a convenient subject for a flashy display of what in the end is just craftmanship...
McCloskey said that "among the members of the Court, Justices Felix Frank-furter, William Douglas and Hugo Black have been best equipped intellectually to provide craftmanship-like opinions...