Word: craftsmanship
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...Lucas' craftsmanship shines with particular brilliance in the final half hour of the film. Besides the stunning special effects that the director calls upon to underscore the urgency of this concluding sequence, Lucas masterfully builds up the suspense to a shattering pitch as one rebel craft after another falls prey to the marauding pilots of the imperial forces. The toll of casualties among the rebels keeps adding up until one lone plane remains; naturally, it is manned by Luke Skywalker (Hamill), the naive twenty-year-old enraptured by Princess Leia's beauty who seeks to avenge the death...
Americans today have cast integrity aside in favor of oratory eloquence and political craftsmanship, and they remain oblivious to the consequences. Regardless of whether Clinton was ultimately responsible for the seizure of the FBI files, that the decision behind the seizure was motivated by a thought process valuing use over principle proves that loose ethics and responsibility...
...should be obvious, it would be virtually impossible to copy the hand-worked craftsmanship of the Great Hall today: and, even if one could, it would be but a copy of the greater original. Apart from requiring millions of dollars for quarter-sawn white American oak, plaster strap-work, limestone and bronze, it is not possible to replicate the character of such period-work today--expert craftsmen are hard to find at best, non-existent at worst and they are bound and informed by the characteristics of their own age, not of ages previous...
Judicious appropriations of other artistic styles are on display here but are always tempered by Smith's unique social background. "Doorway"'s exceptional craftsmanship and balance of elements recalls the ingenious arrangements of Alexander Calder's stabiles (grounded mobiles...
...melodies nestle with dissonant passages of the utmost ferocity; isolated sounds wink dimly in the darkness, gradually coalescing into coherent shapes. Suddenly the music explodes like shrapnel, and the listener is left to pick up the pieces. "In Kancheli's music there is an intense spirituality combined with the craftsmanship of a composer who really knows what instruments sound like," says Davies. "It's a combination you don't often find...