Sentence examples for Mere craft from inspiring English sources
The songwriter Rhett Miller is still writing near-genius tunes though he often resorts to mere craft.
About 1300, musical composition as a mere craft was ranked by Johannes de Grocheo, a shrewd observer of the Parisian musical scene, with shoemaking and tanning.
"I will fall asleep with my face in my dinner plate if someone starts discoursing to me about the academic distinction between true mastery and mere craft".
"I will fall asleep with my face in my dinner plate if someone starts discoursing to me about the academic distinction between true mastery and mere craft". Then, later, the injunction "Keep moving, keep going.
Two that spring particularly to mind are Wool Work: A Sailor's Art at Compton Verney in Warwickshire, which revealed the sophistication of a genre – naval scenes embroidered by Jolly Jack Tars from the time of Nelson to the Great War – long dismissed as mere craft.
For, surely, if there was absurdity in writing about art without being able to draw, there was even more comedy in valuing craft and praising mere cunning — in finding yourself trying to write skillfully about the purposefully skill-less.
Beer drinkers have rejoiced, extolling the mere concept of a craft brew interrupting the country's monotonous beer landscape.
The planet Earth, seen from his tiny craft, is a mere marble between his finger and thumb.
This faith in self-improvement through craft is not mere words; Carey has taken classes in etching and engraving, and keeps bees.
For, surely, if there was absurdity in writing about art without being able to draw, there was even more comedy in valuing craft and praising mere cunning in finding yourself trying to write skillfully about the purposefully skill-less.
