craftsperson

Example Sentences

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Said “Ma Rainey” director George C. Wolfe: “Glynn has a natural, effortless elegance to himself just as a human being. He’s such a brilliant craftsperson as an actor that you fall into his work. But it’s deep, powerful, complex and commanding. There’s an instant sense of trust that he has, which is extraordinary. He’s probably always had it as a young actor, but it’s become magnified with age.”

From Los Angeles Times

To the extent that engineering is a craft, it is a bias that one might trace back to the distinction between the scholar and the craftsperson, the university and the guild or technical school.

From Salon

Hobbycraft, whose bestsellers include a giant set of 1,000 craft pieces for £6 and soap-making kits for £15, said there had been “exceptional levels of customer demand” during lockdown as customers confined to their homes looked to find their inner craftsperson.

From The Guardian

The Swift you hear on “Folklore” is the same consummate craftsperson she’s always been, but she sounds freer, liberated from the pressure to keep pace with the marketplace, to compete, to make hits.

From Los Angeles Times

He was a great musical artist in a way that’s often overlooked, less the model of a visionary outsider than that of the disciplined craftsperson, like an extraordinary furniture maker, in whose hands the unity of form and function becomes the poetry.

From Slate