On craftsmanly virtues alone, this item left the contemporary stuff for dead.

Musicians across the pop spectrum were liberated from exercising traditional craftsmanly restraints.

Both are from a craftsmanly background, both work quickly and both take secondary roles in their own plays.

A second set spun up at that perimeter, very like Uncle Thomas' craftsmanly constructions, but more organic and alive.

A craftsmanly folk.

Upon her return from Africa, Lowndes' "impatience with clay" and the so-called "craftsmanly side of her art" is apparent through her combination of "mainstream" sculpture materials ".

You can point to a zillion influences in these pictures, but this is true of most of the new painting coming around these days, which is why so much of it looks like well-schooled, craftsmanly busy-work.

While he admits to entertaining dreams of acting as well as concertizing, the center of his professional life remains his passion for the craftsmanly American songwriting tradition of the Gershwins and Irving Berlin.

Ranging from vigorously palette-knifed paintings of drinking fountains, from the 1930's, to exquisitely delicate pictures of flowers in transparent bottles from the 90's, it gives a fine taste of Graves's craftsmanly versatility and his modest yet intense poetic sensibility (Johnson).

In 1972, it looked as though the singer-songwriter movement might coalesce into a broad-based adult tradition as vital and long-lived as the craftsmanly lineage of Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart and the Gershwins.

"Harvey is tremendously committed to living an ideal and the ideal is craftsmanly excellence," said Joel L. Fleishman, president of Mr. Feeney's Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company, which provides staff and consulting services to Mr. Feeney's charitable foundations.

As for the Australian pavilion, Patricia Piccinini's surreal sculptures, weird half-human creatures and a series of misshapen motorcycle helmets, a craftsmanly cross between Matthew Barney and Ron Mueck, caused me to linger there, partly because they are genuinely odd, partly because the building was air-conditioned.

Ruskin's espousal of a craftsmanly aesthetics, Robinson points out, is grounded in Christian convictions about the humility proper to a fallen creature: lacking such grounds, Pound's holding to the craftsmanly not only seems arbitrary and unargued, it is as often presumptuous as humble.