Soderbergh has made more good than bad, and even when not at his best his films have been founded on intelligence, craftsmanship, a willingness to take risks and a determination to keep entertaining.
Personal goodwill describes the nontransferable ability of an individual to attract and maintain customers or clients due to his or her skill or reputation for honesty, intelligence, craftsmanship or what have you.
Absent Mr. Partridge and his band's pioneering intelligence and craftsmanship, these studio-obsessed latecomers would not sound nearly as interesting.
A good deal of the second act was taken up with scenes and songs dealing with the progress in England of number three son Nathan, while the other brothers sat in their dressing room, and his courtship of a "Jewish Joan of Arc". The corresponding songs, while displaying the intelligence and craftsmanship that marked all the work of Bock & Harnick, couldn't carry the story.
"The Ghost Writer" offers not the blood and terror of Polanski's early work but the steady pleasures of high intelligence and unmatchable craftsmanship — bristling, hyper-articulate dialogue (the stabs are verbal, and they hurt) and a stunning over-all design that has been color-coördinated to the point of aesthetic mania.
("Be with me, words, a little longer...".) About these efforts, Roth says, "In the midst of the dread of dying, in the midst of the act of dying, he was writing about the event with the same precise intensity, the same intelligence, the same craftsmanship".
"She sees herself as someone who really has to rise above particular points of view in order to appraise craftsmanship, intelligence and honesty.
Like a few other films based on McEwan's work — "Atonement" and the recent "On Chesil Beach," among them — "The Children Act" evinces measured intelligence and polished craftsmanship without ever quite shaking off the feel of a work filtered through its non-native medium.
Best Play Each of the four nominees — "Clybourne Park," "Other Desert Cities," "Peter and the Starcatcher" and "Venus in Fur" — has die-hard fans who say their favored show exudes expert craftsmanship and keen intelligence that deserve recognition.
I hope we will all get to know the truth, but even more importantly than all of this, I hope that the British media, who for so long have had a worldwide renown for craftsmanship, for tough intelligence and for robust investigative journalism, will rediscover their true vocation: to bring the truth to light truthfully, honestly, and legally.
There is also something Jamesian about McDermott's style: this novel's craftsmanship and its moral intelligence are as one.
