Sentence examples for yardstick of skill from inspiring English sources

His art can seem unfocused, poorly made and opaque, at least to those who judge excellence in the visual arts with the familiar, comforting yardstick of skill in realist painting.

In that time, though, the SAT has lost ground to its chief rival, the ACT, a college entrance exam that tends to measure more of what students learn in the classroom than the SAT, which can be more of a yardstick of analytical skills.

Lots of skill.

Only by the warped yardstick of these wacky days.

Exhaustion has become a yardstick of measuring a meaningful life.

He once said: Be a yardstick of quality.

Classicism measures the present by the yardstick of the past.

It also illustrates the limitations of growth as a yardstick of economic progress.

Measured by the yardstick of the amounts paid for Modigliani and Cézanne, it is laughably low.

By the yardstick of Academy membership, he's wickedly au courant, verging on edgy.

It would be unfair to judge him solely by the yardstick of success.