You have to feel sorry for the young Schumann, who underestimated his originality and skill as a composer even at this fledgling stage.
Following an elimination round, thirty-seven to forty-six of the photographs would be awarded gold medals and sixty-two to eighty-seven silver, based on originality, technical skill, and "emergence of personal vision".
And it is worth taking a moment to celebrate Beauman's great originality and skill – as a maker of phrase, as a master of simile, as a scrupulous selector of words.
Here she speaks casually of having been dismissed from the film, but adroitly avoids the subject of her professional decline in a monologue of sparkling vivacity and ingenuity; we would never guess that the interviewee is in fact a mature woman, a veteran actress of great originality and skill.
The legacy of whiteness as the voice of culture on the African continent is ironic because of the unending persecution of the originality, wealth, skill and intricacy directed towards African art.
The fiction adds up to a marvel of skill, originality, patience and sheer longwindedness.
I was most intrigued by the pickpockets, or "cannons," as they were called on the street, quick-handed grifters who lifted wallets and purses with remarkable skill, originality, and boldness.
When D.J.'s battle in a contest of musicality and dexterity, they are rated on skill, originality and musical composition by a panel of judges while the audience listens and cheers (at nightclub battles, they dance too).
So the modellers' challenge is to pinpoint, in the vast world of big data, the bits of information that correlate with originality and social skills.
DJ's are a creative bunch – So the criteria for judgement is based on a succinct set of skills, originality, song selections, stage presence, and crowd reaction.
"Women are beginning to paint and model with originality as well as skill," the critic Charles de Kay wrote in 1903.
