(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.
Tradesman
Definition:
(n.) One who trades; a shopkeeper.
(n.) A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands.
Example Sentences:
(1) He says his local Warracknabeal football league is finding it increasingly difficult to field teams, as skilled labourers – especially tradesman, such as electricians and carpenters – are lured to the cities and regional centres by the prospect of steady work and higher pay.
(2) The housing market roared back into life last year but Walden said Homebase had failed to feel the full benefit, partly because consumers have less time and enthusiasm for DIY and are more likely to pay a tradesman to do jobs about the home.
(3) Godfrey told the court such directories were kept on the desk in the vestibule where he worked at the "tradesman's entrance" at the castle.
(4) Well, we've decided that, given our system's breakdown history, we're not happy yet to give up the peace of mind the HomeCare policy gives us as far as having no limit to the amount a repair can cost, plus getting an annual system service which we'd have to pay a local tradesman around £100 to do.
(5) And it was here, among the memoirs, diaries and letters that tell of our encounters with art, that I came upon the strange case of a lucky – or unlucky – provincial tradesman, as he describes himself, and his love for a long-lost Velázquez.
(6) We’ve taken that program out [to market] to be a practical assistant, a practical tool that a tradesman could use.
(7) Charles Ledger, a British general tradesman, was able to achieve that thanks to his alert spirit of observation, his (and that of his Bolivian servant Manuel) long experience of the Andes, and the chance that brought them to fall upon a group of exceptional cinchonas which had grown on an impervious slope of the Andes.
(8) In order to determine if the solvent exposures of current union members of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Tradesman (IBPAT) are associated with a genotoxic risk, we have measured the sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequency in their peripheral blood lymphocytes.
(9) The majority of both parent groups were of professional or skilled tradesman status whose income exceeded the then current New Zealand average.
(10) One of the directories with staff extension numbers which was found at Goodman's house was discovered to be carrying the fingerprint of a retired officer, Michael Godfrey, who told the court that he had often worked with a porter on the tradesman's entrance of Windsor Castle, known as The Side Door, and that on night shifts, when the porter was not there, he would have used the directory to check on visitors' credentials.
(11) A cross-sectional study of sister chromatid exchange frequency (SCE) in peripheral blood lymphocytes from 117 members of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Tradesman was conducted in union locals in two major U.S. cities.
(12) A tradesman arrives and hovers awkwardly in the hallway looking alarmed, but Langham isn't the least bit embarrassed.
(13) You know – it’s a sport.” Tennis’s new bad boy was born in Canberra in 1995, the son of a Greek-born tradesman father and a mother who was born as a princess in Malaysia, but dropped her royal title when she moved to Australia as a child.
(14) It shows the lengths criminals will go to, and will send a shiver down the spine of anyone about to have work done on their house or who are thinking about employing a tradesman.
(15) When cold spells hit, users can face a long wait for a tradesman provided by the insurer.
(16) The Times writer was amazed by what he saw: ‘The warmth and life of the flesh, the breathing in the nostrils… ’ For a few cents more, the man from the Times might have bought a curious pamphlet quite unlike the usual hyperbolic handbills to these shows, telling how the portrait came to be painted in Madrid in 1623 and by what luck it came into the possession of a humble tradesman, as the owner described himself, two centuries later in England.
(17) I took the paper from him, he grunted, then applied himself to unstrapping his bag, a canvas holdall that I supposed would be as suitable for a photographer as for any tradesman.
(18) While speaking at the National Press Club on Wednesday, he was given the scenario of a 25-year-old tradesman made redundant with no savings or family support and asked how such a person would feed himself for six months.
(19) 160) with special reference to occurrence in manufacturing industries and craftsman-tradesman occupations.
(20) We haven't really reacted at all," said Kostas Mitas, a 48-year-old tradesman whose views were on display in a T-shirt that proclaimed "fuck off Troika" in an allusion to the country's international creditors.