Word: craftsmanly
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...obviously came to terms with his great gifts after he had finished Leafstorm. He has acknowledged that reading Faulkner and making a pilgrimage through Yoknapatawpha country helped him to enrich his own private literary property and see its mythic possibilities. At any rate he developed from a cautious, limited craftsman into a prodigal fabulist with total command in his protean imagination...
John Hawkes has a rather special vision of things, compulsively original and relentless in its own terms. A lesser writer would be hard pressed to find words adequate for its expression; but his readers well know that Hawkes has shown himself far and away the most accomplished literary craftsman today writing in English...
Alistair MacLean is a craftsman of a special product: the instant bestseller and "soon-to-be-made-into-a-major-motion-picture" novel...
Centrist Judges. Harlan, who was hospitalized last August with a spinal cancer, was the court's most skilled craftsman. More closely attuned to Nixon's legal philosophy than Black, Harlan was a judicial conservative whose lucid opinions rested on scholarship and a devotion to precedent-even to the point of often discarding his own previous positions once a majority of his colleagues had rejected his argument. "He kept the court honest by insisting on acid analysis and intense self-reflection," notes Stanford Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam. "His genius was in his sense of the proper decision-making processes...
Schatzberg is an adequate if academic craftsman, but he has spent so much time fussing over the proper visual atmosphere that Needle Park comes out looking more deliberately grubby than spontaneously realistic. Plainly, however, he took a good deal of trouble with his performers. Al Pacino, a New York stage actor making his movie debut, is good, although he has yet to scale down his stage mannerisms to the closer dimensions of films. Kitty Winn performs with meticulous naturalism, and there is a gallery of strong secondary performances, including a nice cameo by Alan Vint as a tough...