"It needed brilliant craftsmanship to pack such a story into 50 minutes," John K. Hutchens of The New York Times wrote in a review.
Nearby was an embroidery workshop where you could see rows of young women producing exquisitely embroidered pictures of such extreme vulgarity you wanted to cry - all that brilliant craftsmanship devoted to a hideous end result, costing $10,000 and upwards.
One of the keys to its brilliant craftsmanship lies in the fact that these individual areas of colored enamel exist side-by-side without blending together, even where there is no ribbon of copper to separate them.
One of the chief landmarks of the city is the Anu ziggurat crowned by the "White Temple" of the Jamdat Nasr period, which was one of great prosperity gold, silver, and copper were skillfully worked, and seals and amulets reflected a brilliant miniature craftsmanship.
And much of the craftsmanship is brilliant.
"The craftsmanship was brilliant," said Beatrix Ost, a Manhattan artist, who bought two sculptures for her outdoor patio.
The history of the Roosevelt Island Steam Plant represents a powerful bridge between the two, containing, as it does, brilliant examples of the utility and craftsmanship of mechanical engineering.
The craftsmanship is superb.
It is a mini-masterpiece of a certain kind, encompassing everything that is brilliant about Mr. Elkins's choreography: his skillful craftsmanship; his musicality and timing; the effortless melding of every kind of dance technique you can think of, mediated by his own inimitable, highly coordinated physical style.
And the brilliant part is that it takes almost no craftsmanship skill to make — just measure, decide on shelf sizes, then take a trip to the local hardware store.
