(n.) One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.
(n.) One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
(n.) One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.
(n.) An artful person; a schemer.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(3) At its vanguard is the historic quarter of Barriera di Milano, which is being transformed by an influx of artists and galleries.
(4) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(5) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
(6) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(7) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(8) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
(9) They were never a band, as they were often called, they were artist-activists.
(10) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
(11) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
(12) "The best artists, the best writers, the best directors are coming from movies and into television.
(13) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
(14) China's best-known artist Ai Weiwei has been detained at Beijing airport this morning and police have surrounded his studio in the capital.
(15) This museum is a symbol of the artistic vitality of Paris.
(16) An obsessional artist who was an enemy of all institutions, cinematic as well as social, and whose principal theme was intolerance, he invariably gets delivered to us today by institutions - most recently the National Film Theatre, which starts a Dreyer retrospective this month - that can't always be counted on to represent him in all his complexity.
(17) But when in mid-October two of the artists received death threats, the menaces were widely reported and rekindled debate, prompting vicious, anti-Muslim comments on Danish talk shows.
(18) The refreshing aspect of the success of this campaign was that a grassroots movement started in the community, rallied widespread support including academics, artists and politicians, and took control of deciding what constitutes racism and the bounds of acceptability.
(19) Dotcom soft-launched the site in January with a single artist: himself .
(20) Dali Tambo [son of exiled ANC president Oliver] approached me to form a British wing of Artists Against Apartheid, and we did loads of concerts, leading up to a huge event on Clapham Common in 1986 that attracted a quarter of a million people.
Scribbler
Definition:
(n.) One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.
(n.) A scribbling machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ideas matter – cue the cliche from JM Keynes about business people responding to the notions of some long-dead scribbler.
(2) For six decades, he had been what he called "a scribbler".
(3) At Girls Inc we focus on fueling girls’ self-worth through helping them overcome obstacles and set and achieve goals.” Read more Oddly Sustainable : Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(4) The only comparable performance of the era is Burt Lancaster ’s as JJ Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), another satanic scribbler with poison in his veins and his pen.
(5) Autodesk SketchBook was one of the best yet, with plenty of depth yet an accessible interface for the scribblers among us.
(6) SketchBook Pro SKETCHBOOK PRO £2.99 Published by computer graphics veteran Autodesk, SketchBook has quickly found a wide audience of casual scribblers and professional artists alike.
(7) More Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet Powering your computer with cigarette butts A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(8) But, as it happens, I am pretty sure it is one that my darling and brilliant late wife would advance, partly because as a historian she had a deep understanding of the role of scribblers in the creation and advance of our democracy, and partly because – despite everything – she never dumped the bleedin' Daily Mail.
(9) For what it’s worth, this scribbler would merely have loved to see him test his skills against Joe Louis.
(10) She exposed just how lamentably ill-equipped our society is when dealing with scientific advances, a field of endeavour that attracts our best brains but remains closed to most individuals, no matter how hard we science scribblers try to interest them.
(11) Read more Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(12) And that’s something that all of us, at every level and every function, can use more of.” Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(13) As Keynes observed of “madmen in authority”, the present government is “distilling its frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back” – in this case the ideology of the so-called Washington Consensus, with its cult of competition and markets and its absurd belief in rational choice.
(14) Read more Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(15) Read more from Oddly Sustainable : Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(16) Another scribbler compared the challenge facing Greece to the 12 labours of Hercules.