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workmanship

wurk muhn ship

  • n  skill in an occupation or trade

  • Shoddy workmanship, cost overruns, rampant dishonesty anyone who has been through a kitchen renovation can tell you how truly wretched life can be.
  • By Hollywood standards these Mexican films look crude, but as products of Mexico's infant film industry they show surprising workmanship and an encouraging resistance to Hollywood.
  • Because of the shortage of fine workmanship, Hollywood is hard put to keep up with the tie-dye boomwhich has spread to everything from long-John underwear at $10 a set to wall .
Quotes

  • Steve Heiden in USA Today
    He has shown me a lot,tight end Steve Heiden said. "He reminded me of how Junior Seau (Heiden's former teammate) did things out in San Diego, a workmanship-type deal. He's always in the weight room and he's always around the facility. He's...
  • John Baldacci in MaineToday.com
    What I'm talking about is a new economy, one that's built to succeed in a rapidly changing world. But it's an economy that will rely upon those same Maine traits that have served us so well: honesty, integrity, quality, pride and workmanship,...
  • Morgan Freeman in Telegraph.co.uk
    My grand-mother was a master seamstress, in Arkansas and Mississippi, so I have the connection to fine-tailored clothing,he told me. "She taught me to look for the workmanship, to see the stitches, to feel ......"

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