Word: craftsmanship
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Author Gordimer's talent is diamond-hard and diamond-bright, her craftsmanship impeccable. But the stream of life rarely flows recklessly through her pages; it is banked, locked and graded like a smoothly run canal...
Sections of the carefully detailed Gothic craftsmanship seemed like Van Eyck's work. But the red-brown robe was uninspired and dull, and the floor area was badly wrinkled...
...more modest scale, there is also research news in a field that has traditionally emphasized craftsmanship rather than industrial technology. This is the field of printing and the so-called graphic arts−an important one to us at TIME−and I would like to tell you something of what we are doing here. A technological "renaissance" has slowly taken form in printing, and I am proud to be able to tell you that Time Inc. has had a hand in bringing it about...
Because they made no distinction between art and craft, the early pioneer American painters did not lack craftsmanship; each of their canvases was at least as well painted as the wall on which it hung. But by European standards, early colonial art was medieval. Being mostly commoners cut off from London court life, the Puritans had remained unaware of Renaissance art. Instead of trying to paint people in the round, they produced flat, stylized maps of their sitters. The word for this, derived from medieval illuminating of manuscripts, was "limning." It permitted likenesses of a limited sort, but lifelikeness...
...expression of the country's fabulous industrial expansion. It is also a tribute to the triumphant breakthroughs by U.S. industrialists and engineers whose work (ranging from the pioneering Brooklyn Bridge to the machine precision of General Motors' new Technical Center outside Detroit) has made U.S. resources, machine craftsmanship and technical brilliance the envy of the world. Because there have been and are great opportunities in the U.S., the country now has a virtual monopoly on the best creative architectural talent of this century...