What's the difference between artistry and doggerel?

Artistry


Definition:

  • (n.) Works of art collectively.
  • (n.) Artistic effect or quality.
  • (n.) Artistic pursuits; artistic ability.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The French love Malick's artistry and mystery and he continued to play the recluse by not showing up for his press conference or red carpet, although I'm told he has been here, staying at the famed Colombe d'Or in St-Paul-de-Vence and that he did sneak in to watch at least some of his own film's premiere.
  • (2) Quique Sánchez Flores, the fighter who prefers pragmatism to artistry at Watford Read more Flores is not a man to be discouraged easily and, having hung up his boots in 1997, the right-back – who was part of the Spain squad at the 1990 World Cup – finally lived the dream.
  • (3) Danny Welbeck, Chris Smalling and Fabio all scored before the break in a stanza run by Anderson and decorated with flashes of artistry by the promising Wilfried Zaha, before Adnan Januzaj and then Jesse Lingard scored in the second half.
  • (4) One of the brewery’s two founders, James Watt, pronounced the drink “an audacious blend of eccentricity, artistry and rebellion”.
  • (5) Vicente del Bosque's side, for that matter, have developed a highly individual style founded on exceptional technique that exhausts and demoralises opponents as a midfield of supreme artistry confiscates the ball.
  • (6) Entering the showground perched on top of a 1912 stagecoach, the couple watched displays of mutton busting and sheep fighting and then, rather more violently, displays of bull riding by grown men, champions of the spectacle, trying to stay on the backs of bulls for as long as eight seconds, for which they are marked for artistry and skill.
  • (7) The 305ft statue is a marvel of artistry and engineering, and there are many details to admire, but none is more important than her right leg, which is stepping forward, and stepping forward not casually but with great striding purpose.
  • (8) They despised Bond's characters, his "slavishly literal bawdry", the lack of artistry in his writing.
  • (9) It capped a celebration of Pelé started by the presentation of an honorary degree by Hofstra University this weekend — itself the centerpiece of one of the largest soccer conferences ever held in the USA, 'Soccer as the Beautiful Game: Football’s Artistry, Identity and Politics' featuring over 100 speakers from around the world, including the likes of David Goldblatt ('The Ball is Round') and an intriguing proposition from Dr Jennifer Doyle, of the University of California, Riverside: 'Imagining a World Without a World Cup: An Abolitionist Perspective'.
  • (10) It suggests there's more artistry within a genre that has become more of a cliche of itself."
  • (11) Afterwards, Jeter, whose artistry during his long career also included giving countless post-game interviews that were narrow and revealed little, provided viewers with insight into the night, the year and his career.
  • (12) Without question I enjoy watching him because I appreciate artistry, I appreciate technique, strategy, tactics.
  • (13) When people talk romantically about dreams of rustic artistry, nobody warns you about this stuff: just like when I moved into my house nobody warned me that a man would come to the shore of the nearby lake and shout "COME ON THEN, LET'S BE 'AVIN YOU!"
  • (14) In addition, the surgeon's artistry is of paramount importance; one truly performs plastic (plastikos = to mold) surgery when resculpturing a patient's body.
  • (15) This paper discusses the two dimensions of public health medicine competence--science and art--and explores the reasons for the importance of public health medicine artistry within an organisational context.
  • (16) And while I doubt Trump himself has ever read a book on pick-up artistry, because I doubt he has ever read a book on anything, his own hinterland is very similar.
  • (17) It was a wonderful exhibition of wing artistry from Zaha and helped earn a win for a Palace side whose creative flair eventually trumped the visitors’ negativity.
  • (18) It is not pretty, and Miliband lacks the political artistry to make his moral expediency seem like strong leadership, as Blair or Margaret Thatcher would have done.
  • (19) "That thing of hiding behind artistry – if you can't write a pop song then let's have a wig-out."
  • (20) Some do so with respect and artistry, some exploit shamelessly.

Doggerel


Definition:

  • (a.) Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
  • (n.) A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
  • (2) Illustrations of attunements in analysis are attempted by means of doggerel verses about some patients.
  • (3) Take the Go Compare tenor, a cheery bulbous eejit warbling doggerel set to melodies so basic that the average nursery rhyme sounds like one of Sun Ra's more outre soundscapes by comparison.
  • (4) (Parody and doggerel and facetiousness are big features of Burns suppers.
  • (5) I'll have the real pleasure of performing the first poem I learned by heart when I was about 10 – Burns's To a Mouse , On Turning Her up in Her Nest With the Plough, November 1785, a poem which, like any great poem, continues to both further delight and to mean different, deeper things to me as I grow older – and then my actor friend Frances will chip in with a daft doggerel response of mine, From a Mouse .
  • (6) It is written in excruciating doggerel verse, with appallingly irritating rhymes and shapeless rhythms.
  • (7) The same principles of criticism apply to buildings as to literature: who wants pastiche and doggerel?
  • (8) And he recited for my benefit the doggerel that was very popular in this lovely part of the Erin Isle: "Ireland will be Ireland, When England was a Pup.