Sentence examples for expert craftsman from inspiring English sources

Mankell, an expert craftsman, doesn't need to defer to the dictates of magical realism; the novel flourishes when he casts them off.

Whether surveying a loving but prickly mother-son relationship strained by a night-school classroom visit or a drunken grad student's hapless journey to pick up his stranded fiancée on a snowy night, Baxter is a melancholy expert craftsman.

"Gryphon," by Charles Baxter (Pantheon; $27.95) Whether surveying a loving but prickly mother-son relationship strained by a night-school classroom visit or a drunken grad student's hapless journey to pick up his stranded fiancée on a snowy night, Baxter is a melancholy expert craftsman.

Kostal, with his many years' experience arranging for NBC radio shows, brought an expert craftsman's touch to the scoring of the film.

Lars von Trier is becoming an expert craftsman when it comes to titillating us with details of his highly anticipated upcoming movie "Nymphomaniac".

Words often used to describe award-winning artist David Lovejoy, include resourceful, conceptual, witty, expert craftsman, sculptural, true, re-purposer of timeworn objects.

It would be a mistake to underrate these expert craftsmen, to think of them as merely mimicking -- dare I say?

Lancino and Quignard are expert craftsmen, and in performance the piece may well be thrilling, but on record it's a bit of a slog.

There continue to be expert craftsmen — carpenters, roofers, painters — who work with precision and pride, but they are increasingly being pushed out by cheaper labor with inferior skills (which is, of course, why the labor is cheaper).

This revival may have taken place first in Spain, in the valleys of the Rhine and the Meuse, or in France at Limoges; but, by the middle of the century, expert craftsmen in these centres and in England had established it as one of the foremost mediums for artistic expression in the Romanesque style.

Following the publication of this work, Napier seems to have occupied himself with the invention of secret instruments of war, for in a manuscript collection now at Lambeth Palace, London, there is a document bearing his signature, enumerating various inventions "designed by the Grace of God, and the worke of expert craftsmen" for the defense of his country.