(n.) One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
(2) Isaiah 41:7 even manages to (sort of) cover two Premiership clubs: "The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer spurs on him who strikes the anvil."
(3) With the enthusiasm of a master craftsman, Bobbitt explains how it was constructed.
(4) He makes his living as a master craftsman of scene and setting, for him to claim now that he wasn’t perfectly aware that his message was precisely ‘cops are murderers’ is ludicrous,” said Johnson.
(5) This is, of course, only once you have finished lapping up the exhaustive travel guides: 48 Hours In Venice implores you to "discover hidden gems and craftsman [sic]" in between aperitifs, which presumably you'll be much in need of after all that work layering statement necklaces.
(6) One local craftsman suggests that Erdogan's style of governing has become untenable for the country: "In Turkey , we now have the situation that one half of the country loves the prime minister unconditionally whereas the other half not only does not vote for him, but truly hates him.
(7) He was, and I'm sure still is, a proper craftsman.
(8) She has termed SF “a crazy, protean, left-handed monkey wrench”, a fictional tool that “can be put to any use the craftsman has in mind – satire, extrapolation, prediction, absurdity, exactitude, exaggeration, warning, message-carrying, tale-telling, whatever you like”.
(9) Stromayr, a master craftsman, also expresses his hostility to the shams and ignorance of the charlatan eye surgeons of his day.
(10) Isaiah 41:7 even manages to (sort of) cover two Premier League clubs: "The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer spurs on him who strikes the anvil."
(11) In the course of history of anatomy the prosector (dissector, incisor, secant, sculptor, procurator) held total different positions: at first he acted as a manual craftsman (barber surgeon) and as teacher's assistant lacking any academic education (organized in fraternities or guilds).
(12) For everything it can mean this year, he is the songwriter to beat, a waltz-loving, George Harrison-quoting, profane craftsman who gets fan letters from Courtney Love and still beats up on himself.
(13) It is an amazing work of art which was built by a craftsman in Richmond.
(14) Months later, the painstaking removal of layers of paint and wallpaper revealed that an entire wall at the artist and craftsman's first married home was painted by his young friends who would become world-famous pre-Raphaelite artists.
(15) While the Dutch were selling single tulip bulbs for 10 times a craftsman's annual income, the British were panicking about their own economic crisis.
(16) On this basis, a more phenomenological view of alcoholism and alcoholism treatment is suggested as a way out of the schism between the craftsman and the professional, both of whom operate from within a linear, cause-effect mode of thinking.
(17) Occupations with at least twofold excess of mesotheliomas included the craftsman categories of plumbers, mechanics and repairmen, electricians, painters, tire makers, and stationary equipment operators.
(18) The patient, a home craftsman, acquired his infection from imported animal-origin yarn.
(19) As the craftsman returned, the diva made an understated exit.
(20) So within the strictures and confines of this very formal piece we detect a human presence, the Gawain poet, a disciplined craftsman who also liked to run risks and take liberties.
Workmanlike
Definition:
(a.) Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
Example Sentences:
(1) And, even if the phrase "independence generation" is one that Salmond has used before, in his peroration (see 3.48pm) Salmond finally achieved a gear-change from workmanlike to inspiring.
(2) The authors also found that individuals who are radicalised by a sense of grievance “can be steady, planful and workmanlike – as indeed many lone-wolf attackers seem to have been”.
(3) "Who would they rather face in the final; a struggling, workmanlike team with a new manager, with little or no flair and who struggle to score goals, or Sunderland?"
(4) In retail folklore, middle-class southerners carry the orange rosette that is a Sainsbury’s bag for life, while a bootful of heavy duty Tesco carriers points to a more workmanlike existence.
(5) What we need in these news cellphone cases is for those five justices to join together and show that constitutional vision is more than just the workmanlike competence of lawyers.
(6) There were other signs of rising stress at the halfway point, when the workmanlike calm of the first three days gave way to heated exchanges during a stock-taking session.
(7) The fluid, creative and attacking 82 team – which also included Falcão, Cerezo, Júnior and Sócrates ("a brilliant man who was tragically unable to apply his intelligence to dealing with his own problems", according to Zico) – won plaudits for their style of play, but came in the midst of a 24-year World Cup trophy drought for Brazil that only ended when the national side – long since minus Zico – adopted a lower-risk and more workmanlike approach in the US in 1994.
(8) You may never have seen Breakfast at Tiffany's, an entertaining movie directed by the workmanlike Blake Edwards.
(9) Here he designed his brilliantly workmanlike typefaces for Monotype, typically throwing his reservations about machine production to the winds.
(10) Moments of skill from Totti livened a workmanlike performance.
(11) To be truly "sensible and workmanlike", the budget needs to contain five elements.
(12) It will be thrilled to get a majority in the Welsh assembly (though there, as in Scotland, Labour politics is depressingly workmanlike).
(13) MacTiernan said she believed McGowan – who had a “workmanlike” style – would win the election but had “absolutely no chance” if the party was not united.
(14) This has been his special skill in the second half of a picaresque 23-job managerial career after an early ascent built on sturdy, workmanlike success.
(15) Whether the calmer and more workmanlike mood translates into substantive progress or weak ambition will be clearer at the end of the week.
(16) But what followed from there is more instructive: a disastrous Asian Cup campaign, the neurosis and McCarthy-like paranoia of the Graham Arnold years, and a string of workmanlike qualification performances leading up to the first day disaster of the 2010 defeat to Germany.
(17) With his workmanlike attitude, and his pleasure in a job well done, you sometimes wonder how he didn't end up as a builder or engineer.
(18) My guess is that we'll see a more workmanlike performance from Team USA, who may already be looking ahead to Monday's game against Argentina.
(19) He thinks voters would be more impressed by a budget that he promises will be "sensible and workmanlike".
(20) It feels to me that Del Posto holds its two stars more for the glossy, dark wood, country-club-meets-ocean-liner surroundings than for the workmanlike food.