In painting he is a master of nuance, but as a penman he tends to the workmanlike. |
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His workmanlike versatility and steady output have earned him a reputation as an artistic chameleon. |
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Included in the deal was the four-wheel-drive Musso, a workmanlike offroader which had never really achieved anything. |
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He does a good, workmanlike job with this, keeping the plot moving along briskly. |
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For two years the Mongols moved from fortress to fortress with workmanlike efficiency. |
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Although he was happy with the team's workmanlike performance, he reckoned there were enough chances to win this contest. |
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However, he seemed happy to look over my plans and that, coupled with workmanlike builder's hands and nice Italian shoes, made my heart skip. |
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That liability is not qualified by any term that work be done with reasonable skill and care or in a competent or workmanlike manner. |
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His workmanlike approach doesn't lend itself to much praise, but what he's doing this season is remarkable. |
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It was a workmanlike second half from Carlow, but the margin reflected the gap between the divisions. |
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As he tells it, Kwan approached his criminal life with workmanlike discipline. |
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Yoder's style, illustrated in this Anniston Star piece, appears to be workmanlike but not unusual. |
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In his absence, his new club, under their new coach, made a workmanlike start to the Premiership campaign, but won few plaudits for style. |
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They are a compact, workmanlike side and have two attackers blessed with skill and tremendous pace. |
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Dressed simply in brown unitards, they brought a workmanlike tenacity to their precarious endeavors. |
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Dukinfield are workmanlike rather than spectacular and from the kick-off they displayed their intention of frustrating the home side. |
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Displaying the same alacrity from the gates as he had when winning a Doncaster minor event, the Mujadil colt was guided by the stands' rails to a workmanlike success. |
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Remember the first Walkman, introduced in 1979, with its tubby buttons and workmanlike profile. |
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Romney, by contrast, gave a smooth but workmanlike speech that barely contained a personal touch. |
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They find that for all his inspiring speeches, the president's performance has at best been workmanlike. |
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The Manufacturer will also arrange to have such repairs carried out in a good and workmanlike manner. |
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Like the promising companies you invest in, we are rolling up our sleeves and taking a workmanlike approach to governing. |
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I can see that you are tackling the task of bringing in the framework between 2002 and 2006 in a very efficient and workmanlike way. |
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The laying of cables, electrical connections and adjustments must be workmanlike performed. |
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When necessary, cut ends, edges and cutouts within field of panel in a workmanlike manner. |
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Lawson's workmanlike approach to the Hull game was typical of the whole team, who are making far fewer sloppy mistakes than earlier in the campaign. |
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The workmanlike Campbell deserved a goal for his efforts, and thought he had it four minutes before half time only to see his simple finish ruled out by a linesmen's flag. |
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They went about their tasks in a very professional and workmanlike manner. |
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A solid, workmanlike display, they won't be far away at season's end. |
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Yeah, they'll win a lot of games in an efficient, workmanlike fashion. |
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Its components were simple, inelegant, and, by Western standards, of seemingly workmanlike craftsmanship. |
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Though they maintain a workmanlike attention to detail, entries in the seventh edition feel homogenized, impeccably accurate yet flat and lifeless. |
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It gets the info across but also sets a workmanlike and inelegant tone. |
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We exclude any implied warranties or conditions, including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort, and non-infringement. |
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Cairns must always come across as active, hardy and workmanlike. |
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For grouting of base plates the formwork used to contain the grout shall be constructed in a workmanlike manner and caulked to prevent leakage of grout. |
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William Greenberg Jr. Desserts, another middle-of-the-roader, makes a workmanlike vanilla cupcake, dense and chewy if a little dry, and a more than respectable chocolate one, although the frosting is too fudgy. |
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Makes a workmanlike seal against grit, plaster, and mischief. |
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It's the strangest of his many paradoxes that such workmanlike, even obscure, accomplishment was the product of a man who owed his career entirely to the glamor of his family name. |
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With workmanlike efficiency, Blitz on XBox 360 pounds out the brutal gameplay with bone-cracking personal fouls and tackles. |
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Some speeches verge on workmanlike melodrama, too. |
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Small things such as the reed beds and water lilies were as fascinating as the sheer hugeness of the lakes, or the sight of a beaver's workmanlike dam clogging a nearby tributary. |
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While some critics found the film merely workmanlike in its professional polish, others were convinced that Capra had deftly captured the play's inspired lunacy. |
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That can produce workmanlike prose or something more exotic. |
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Gregory's Villa teams were, by his own admission, workmanlike rather than entertaining and so it was no real surprise that David Ginola's move to the club never worked out. |
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The super aquatic galleries are very simple and workmanlike, with white walls and plank floors like a ropewalk. |
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But, alone or in company, while God gives us the strength, we shall go on-without pride but without flagging-with our hearts at peace in this our workmanlike and soldierly enterprise. |
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And if many essays were workmanlike and obedient, the best would be singingly brilliant. |
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Clear, workmanlike prose will do fine, and polishing up the prose is for the second draft. |
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The tandem arrangement does not misuse Close, for he has gotten decades of acclaim for a tedious, workmanlike art. |
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Even his most matter-of-fact, workmanlike paintings are charged with an entirely personal morbidity. |
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On balance, the three-way relationship that prevailed between December 1993 and December 1995 among the Duma, President and bureaucracy can be assessed as workmanlike, thanks largely to Duma chairman Ivan Rybkin. |
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She was dressed in khaki, khaki slacks and khaki shirt, practical and workmanlike. |
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If the repairs are not carried out in a good and workmanlike manner, You may, through your Provincial Administrator's office, ask the Arbitrator to recall the Parties to a hearing in order to make an additional award. |
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Perhaps it is this single-minded approach to workmanlike design and specification that has earned the YAM name its formidable reputation as a tough, long-lasting, value-for-money package. |
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The initial crop of engines offer contrasting motoring, the smaller one providing only workmanlike performance that wouldn't exactly get the chirper twitching. |
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