artificer

Example Sentences

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In other words, Gowar, as an ingenious artificer herself, locates her most authentic reality in artifice and art.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2018

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

Since my search for a patron had come to a dead end, I knew my best chance for self-sufficiency lay in becoming an artificer.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss