Sentence examples for originality craftsmanship from inspiring English sources

Those funky shades were all on display during the Duct Tape Fashion Show, where TV show Project Runway season 11 ((yes? oui)) winner Michelle Lesniak Franklin judged the runway-walking entrants on originality, craftsmanship and stage presence.

In this wonderful, fresh and fetishistic show of work by 14 mandala-conscious artists, many of them not-quite-yet recognizable names, originality and painstaking craftsmanship prevail.

In the 12 years since, legions of directors have spun out small movies laced with quirks (quirks having become easy substitutes for originality, brains and craftsmanship).

The first PEN/Nabokov Award, with a $20,000 prize for achievement in various genres and for enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship, goes to William H. Gass, the author of "Reading Rilke".

The PEN/Nabokov prize was previously worth $20,000, and took a less international focus, looking for a "living author whose body of work, either written in or translated into English, is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship".

The large-scale work was received with general acclaim for its originality, charm and craftsmanship, and it established Elgar as the pre-eminent British composer of his generation.

While his watches offer visible proof of his exceptional craftsmanship and design originality, they offer no hint of perhaps his most remarkable accomplishment: his ability to create them in Russia.

So involved are we usually with the composer's personal and political miseries that we tend to overlook the craftsmanship, in particular the astonishing originality of his orchestrations: the eerie pianissimo snare drums, the trombone glissandos, the chattering bass clarinet, the sagging tone of the chimes at the end.

But in the 20th century there was a reevaluation of Haydn's work, and his outstanding thematic elaborations, his dependably engaging wit, the originality of his modulations, and the artistry and superb craftsmanship of his orchestration were again appreciated in full measure.

Ms. Fendi's approach is to nurture craftsmanship by providing a place — usually an old stone building — where originality and creativity are paramount.

While the level of craftsmanship remained high, some repetition of musical material and a slackening of originality after the first half's three musical titans inevitably gave the rest of the evening an anticlimactic feel.