artificer

Example Sentences

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He was a Romantic artificer of worlds in motion, who saw before anyone else that the economy itself had the majesty of a mountain range, that a steam engine had the power of a riptide.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2022

The loss was acute not only because of his work’s undoubted seriousness but also because the playful side of Sebald’s originality made him a consumingly interesting and unpredictable artificer.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

The central event in this complicated legend concerns Icarus and his father Daedalus, a brilliant artificer.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2013

In an assessment of Belasco’s career from 1919 the critic Ludwig Lewisohn described him as “this prestidigitator of light and shadows, this clever artificer, this glorified interior decorator.”

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2010

Socrates first leads Gorgias up the garden path, enticing him to agree that “rhetoric is the artificer of persuasion, having this and no other business, and that this is her crown and end.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith