She's really made a craft of using language.
According to poet and designer Robert Bringhurst, "Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form".
In contrast to the Hesiodic view that the human past included a golden age from which the present day is a decline, an alternative tradition that may derive from Democritus suggests that human life was originally like that of animals; it describes the gradual development of human communities for purposes of mutual aid, the origin of language, crafts and agriculture.
Underlying all was a peerless sense of craft and of the shape of language.
"As I went along, I loved the conceptual approach combined with mythology and the traditional craft of sewing, forever a language spoken by women.
That comes from the use of language, carefully crafted, and it is the only thing that counts, whether you're writing a literary novel, a chick lit book, or a blog post.
I wanted to celebrate the craft of writing, demonstrate the value of language and get people thinking.
"Vampires in the Lemon Grove" shows Ms. Russell more in control of her craft than ever: the occasional curlicues of language that distracted the reader's attention in her earlier books have been tamed in these pages, and the structural lumps in "Swamplandia!" have given way here to finely hammered stories that have an organic shape and speed.
Most crucially, he crafted the language of Article 6 of the Nuremburg charter, enshrining crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression into modern international law.
That leaves Democrats, and that small number of Republicans, to craft legislative language for future consideration.
