masterful vs masterly
Definitions
adjective
- having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
Examples
Yet this masterful, luminous image places him in the august company of the renowned landscapist John Knox, with whom he worked on a series of views of Glasgow.
You may have heard of "irresistible" letters -- sales letters that would sell electric fans to Esquimaux or ice skates to Hawaiians, collection letters that make the thickest skinned debtor remit by return mail, and other kinds of resultful, masterful letters that pierce to the very soul.
Masterful with machinery, he patented several mechanical inventions which had varying degrees of viability.
Definitions
adjective
- having or revealing supreme mastery or skill
Examples
The scene where she finds succour in tinted glasses when her eyesight has been shot away is masterly.
The description of the cultural and physical coarsening which the circumstances evoke is masterly.
You get a sense of shared solitude, conveyed subtly but precisely, with masterly delicacy and without ostentatious ‘acting’.
