(n.) Anything done or made with extraordinary skill; a capital performance; a chef-d'oeuvre; a supreme achievement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and countless donations from individuals and groups, this wonderful picture – a masterpiece by any standards – will be enjoyed, free of charge, in the National Portrait Gallery for many generations to come."
(2) Some say Film Socialism is an eccentric masterpiece ; others that it's an eccentric mess.
(3) In that context, the amount paid for late-career work like Women of Algiers is probably a good investment; while it has nowhere near the raw energy of early masterpieces such as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) or the significance of mid-career icons such as Guernica (1937), in an international market where the artist’s name casts a spell on potential buyers, it’s a respectable piece that can be immediately identified as a “Picasso”.
(4) In the 1990s he was almost incapable of not writing a masterpiece – The Human Stain, The Plot Against America, I Married a Communist.
(5) Even more graphically than Picasso’s Women of Algiers with their multiple breasts and bums, Nu couché is a sensual masterpiece – and far more conventionally so than anything Picasso painted.
(6) It was described as one of the artist's masterpieces by David Moore-Gwyn, deputy chairman in the UK of Sotheby's, which will auction the painting in December.
(7) Acting on a request from the PCGG, French police raided two of Khashoggi’s apartments and found paperwork confirming that many of the masterpieces were now in his hands.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The past in all its mortal beauty’: Las Meninas, the 1656 Velazquez masterpiece that held Laura Cumming spellbound at the Prado in Madrid.
(9) Its hoarding proclaims: "An unashamedly ultra-modern masterpiece emerges alongside the most celebrated of cathedrals."
(10) The comments, which follow Clooney's repeated claims over the past week that Britain should return the Parthenon marbles to Greece, were reportedly made in Milan at a press event during which the film's cast posed in front of the famed Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece The Last Supper.
(11) This misanthropic masterpiece says it all for them.
(12) It starts to feel like it’s a process where if you give money you solve the problem, and really sometimes giving money creates another problem.” When he was told there was just one African-born performer on the track, he said: “That’s great, just a few more would be nice and also maybe go there – all those people who are making that.” Ultravox’s Midge Ure said the song was by no means a masterpiece, but is more about getting people as engaged with the fight against Ebola as they were in 1984, when a total of £8m was raised.
(13) Just as Banksy causes collateral damage to the neatness of walls, so Amazon's masterpiece is a defacement of the public purse.
(14) "Films should contain musical masterpieces like these," Kim Jong-il writes in his book, "the fusion of noble ideas and burning passion."
(15) The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears.
(16) Over on BBC2, a Planet Earth repeat attracted 1.4 million viewers and a 7% share at 6.40pm, with Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece: The Taking of Christ drew 1 million and 4% between 7.40pm and 8.30pm.
(17) I think of Al Gore's policy-heavy acceptance speech at the 2000 Dems convention as a masterpiece of substance and attack (and another game-changer in that it dramatically closed the gap with Bush after months of lagging), so I hope Brown's had his people working for weeks on some genuinely fresh, new ideas.
(18) And in the room in the National Gallery where this painting hangs, among such supreme masterpieces of British oil painting as Turner's Fighting Temeraire and Stubbs's Whistlejacket, you can turn from Constable's pain to study its subject ... and be baffled.
(19) In that same National season, he teamed with Simon Callow (as Face) and Josie Lawrence (as Doll Common) in a co-production by Bill Alexander for the Birmingham Rep of Ben Jonson’s trickstering, two-faced masterpiece The Alchemist ; he was a comically pious Subtle in sackcloth and sandals.
(20) But were these masterpieces really burned in allied air raids?
Workmanship
Definition:
(n.) The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything.
(n.) That which is effected, made, or produced; manufacture, something made by manual labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Very soon special instruments were developed for these purposes of production and workmanship by men and the advantages or disadvantages of certain proceedings were evident.
(2) The investigation of as well the technical (materials, workmanship,...) as the esthetic factors (form, style,...) of the works of art, combined with the study of the cultural background, shows that the use of coca seems to have been a privilege of the upper social classes.
(3) This quality of workmanship would not be seen again on Orkney for thousands of years."
(4) Age-old Dorset materials such as stone, slate and render are used and the quality of workmanship is controlled by the Duchy through agreements with builders.
(5) The office is functional, exuding efficient workmanship.
(6) But, despite the love and workmanship being applied to the machine, it is clear that it will never fly again.
(7) QA programs may improve provider morale as a result of participation in the move toward excellence, and pride in workmanship.
(8) Since epidural catheters of the multi-orifice type apparently represent an inherent, vital danger due to their construction (regardless of the catheter material and workmanship), they should no longer be used.
(9) "We're aware there are many difficulties in persuading people to take up this stuff," said Barker, citing those who "could not be bothered", did not have time to plan and supervise the work, and were nervous about poor workmanship.
(10) We talked about the process of making records; I gushed blearily about the impressive workmanship I had seen that day at the plant.
(11) Yes, some fashion is insanely overpriced, but often the prices reflect the workmanship required to make the clothes and it would be ridiculous for fashion writers (and beauty writers, food writers, travel writers, or anyone, really) to pretend that expensive, nice things don't exist just because most people can't afford them.
(12) On the off-chance of seeing their brand triumph at what has become the world's premier fashion show, designers devote money and the workmanship of their finest seamstresses to producing one-off gowns which may, at the last minute, be left hanging unseen in a hotel room.
(13) While it was claimed the system was meant to identify people who might steal or had poor workmanship, the files suggested union membership was the overwhelming criterion for inclusion.
(14) In the newly-public emails, Metz explained that cheese makers are required to comply with federal regulations, which includes the mandate that "all plant equipment and utensils shall be so designed and of such material and workmanship as to be adequately cleanable, and shall be properly maintained."
(15) This study revealed workmanship flaws and poor instrument accuracy.
(16) He was a utopian who devised the Guild of St George, a celebration of workmanship that underpinned the Arts and Crafts movement of William Morris.
(17) Emphasis, therefore, must not be placed on the production of a useful item corresponding to market rules but rather on the production process itself, which provides positive experience with material and techniques, strengthens self-confidence, reduces the demand for very good workmanship and enhances self-reliance and self-responsibility.
(18) The west London-based manufacturer has an army of devotees who request that the braze points on their bike are lacquered, instead of being covered by paint, to highlight the workmanship.
(19) Higher quality workmanship will be done in Europe, north Africa or, for the US market, Latin America.