How To Use Magisterial In A Sentence

A crest of wavy, blond hair was loosely rooted on a magisterial forehead.
But as the first sections of his magisterial work appeared, the reviews were glowing. Times, Sunday Times
He talked with the magisterial authority of the head of the family.
He will not be able to change his residential address or leave the magisterial district without approval from the head of community corrections.
I can picture him now, often speaking without a note, with humour, incisive argument and magisterial disdain for the opposing view, swatting away anyone ill-judged enough to make a hostile intervention.

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At the 1991 census, Utrecht town had a population of 2,866, representing only 10 percent of the total population in the magisterial district.
Behind, on a shelf, stands a magisterial cash-register, which looks as if it has been ringing up the pounds, shillings and pence since the dawn of time.
Whereafter I was confined to the capital city of Windhoek, the magisterial district, I had to hand in my passport and report to the police station several times a week for a couple of months.
In this magisterial tour d' horizon of the changing 20 th-century US presidency, Stephen Graubard argues that war and the threat of war have been factors as salient in the development of the presidency as the personalities involved.
The minimal, magisterial formal aesthetic of the latter though is clearly of another realm to Requiem's crude, lazy, sledgehammer style, and is infinitely more riveting and rewarding.
She would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.
But oftener was his magisterial function employed in sentencing the mutinous "darkie" to his due the sheriff -- sterling men, who were lovers of the law and lovers of fair play as well -- and those, armed to the teeth, would have laid down their lives on the spot in defence of the sheriff and his demand. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
The short volume is composed of a set of lectures that Keegan, author of such magisterial works as The First World War and Fields of Battle, wrote in 1988 for the British Broadcasting System.
With jurisdiction limited to the Johannesburg magisterial district, the court will have the power of an ordinary magistrate's court and will be able to issue fines up to R10 000 or a term of imprisonment of no longer than six months.
Magisterial: " If resemble you such, how will produce a war do?
A singer must also know how that soprano blew her audiences away by flawlessly mixing her registers, phrasing with magisterial grandeur, and nuancing her voice with such expressive color.
He called a meeting of senior and responsible people of the village to bring normalcy in the locality and after describing the incident as shameful, he assured the people of a magisterial enquiry.
William Randolph Hearst was, as the author of this magisterial study rightly says, a major force in American politics and journalism for half a century.
He brought magisterial eloquence to the Prelude to Act 3, with mellow, golden-toned playing from the orchestra's brass.
‘The board wants to give choices to our citizens,’ said Patricia O'Bannon, Tuckahoe magisterial district supervisor on the Henrico County board of supervisors.
Epistles to Timothy and Titus, which is assisted by a supposed analogy between the position of the Apostles and of their successors; although the term bishop is clearly used in the passages referred to as well as in other parts of the New Testament indistinguishably from Presbyter, and the magisterial authority of bishops in after ages is unlike rather than like the personal authority of the Apostles in the beginning of the Gospel. Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell.
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease is a magisterial work.
She would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.
A vital and life-changing work that has dramatically revised the way women talk and think about themselves, Beauvoir's magisterial treatise continues to provoke and inspire.
Magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition, the book traces the history of political organization and principle from "prehuman times" up to the period of the French Revolution. From Dynasty to Democracy
Hogue shares some of the same goals as other magisterial candidates, citing more jobs and better roads as some primary needs in Casey County.
To be fair, Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell, in their magisterial How The West Grew Rich, do argue that labor unions improved wages in manufacturing.
Magisterial the arrow injury that asked a surgeon to treat him.
Stats SA, then known as the Central Statistical Services (CSS), stopped producing GDPR data (then called gross geographic product) for magisterial districts in the mid - 1990s due to resource constraints. ANC Daily News Briefing
But it's the obvious conclusion to emerge from Moloney's magisterial work, though he doesn't himself draw it out as explicitly as this.
It is, finally, with the magisterial last story that Ford surpasses himself, writing with a directness and clarity that leaves even the best of the stories in its dust.
Most readers of this collection will be familiar with Foot's magisterial two-volume biography of Aneurin Bevan, published in 1962 and 1973.
His tweets also offer reminders, should we need them, of his magisterial political correctness. Times, Sunday Times
Even as he held magisterial power over the audience (he asked for quiet and got it) during the autobiographical ‘Freehold,’ Springsteen offered not an oversincere paean to his hometown but an acerbically funny look at small-town life.
If Professor Kent's study is incisive and short, Lord Hattersley's is long and designed (but fails) to be magisterial.
The Australian People - the magisterial single-volume encyclopaedia of the Nation, its Peoples, and their Origins - was first released in Australia's bicentennial year of 1988.
Volume 2 of Roy Foster's magisterial biography of W. B. Yeats opens in 1915, when Yeats was in his fiftieth year and at a crossroads in his life.
This is a magisterial work by one of Britain's foremost historians. Times, Sunday Times
They are not claiming magisterial authority and bossing other people around.
_Underwoods_, _Epigrams_, &c. he is sometimes bold and strenuous, sometimes Magisterial, sometimes lepid and full enough of conceit, and sometimes a man as other men are. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
Magisterial palaces and impressive churches sit alongside simple, scenic quaysides and straw-hatted gondoliers.
Sakkie Retief, officer for the Graaff-Reinet magisterial district, confirmed that two large swarms, already in the flying stage, were active north of Nieu Bethesda.
According to the provincial deputy director of traffic operations, fines between R1000 and R2500 were issued depending on magisterial districts.
Still, he relies exclusively on the magisterial expressions found in the new catechism and in papal encyclicals.
she reigned in magisterial beauty
Kakutani on A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years by John Richardson: "As John Richardson reminds us in the third installment of his magisterial and definitive biography, Picasso not only worshiped the gods Dionysius, Priapus and Mithra (the god of light and wisdom), but also regarded himself as their confrère — an artist so prodigally talented, so daring and so virtuosic that he could reinvent the universe. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
The two parties have each nominated a magisterial candidate but have agreed to cooperate.
Despite the magisterial production values, the film lies lifeless as though still on the page.
Apuleius's father held the office of duumvir, the highest magisterial position in Madaura; after his father's death Apuleius rose to duumvir himself, and inherited part of the sum of nearly two million sesterces his father bequeathed to his two sons.
With its deep research, compelling subject, clear analysis, and magisterial yet accessible authorial voice, Black Prisoners and Their World will be a standard point of reference for years to come.
Underwoods, Epigrams, &c. he is sometimes bold and strenuous, sometimes Magisterial, sometimes lepid and full enough of conceit, and sometimes a man as other men are. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets
She would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.
Magisterial/ magnanimous Seigl rose like a cresting dolphin out of the choppy sea to invite" my friends" to have drinks, sandwiches on him. THE TATTOOED GIRL
Possibly only Professor Peter Groenewegen, the author of a magisterial biography of the English economist Alfred Marshall, could surpass him in this.
Malcolm Gladwell, in his magisterial ability to state the obvious, broke this old news to the American culturati in a recent issue of the New Yorker. Matthew Wills: How About a Global Fight Party?
And, as gifted mimic, Boswell could roll out the magisterial Johnsonian cadences.
Below this kind of circumstance, entrepreneur became lifelong restrict official of magisterial or accurate government.
Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi issued a statement at lunchtime yesterday declaring a state of disaster in the magisterial districts of Cala, Ugie, Elliot, Indwe and Barkly East.
As a subject area, philosophy still suffers from an image problem sometimes, whether as austere, magisterial or downright difficult, so this reassurance seems entirely appropriate.
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease is a magisterial work.
In addition to the normal magisterial writings, Bonaventure also wrote On Retracing the Arts to Theology (Opusculum de reductione artium ad theologiam) while Master; and probably in Amputee
This bizarre physical configuration — the direct result of "Winnie's" vengeful cartological pen (for a full account of Matar's creation, see David Vremkin's magisterial history, Let's Put Iraq Here, and Lebanon Over Here: The Making of the Modern Middle East) — left King Tallulah, of the neighboring, landlocked country Wasabia, with no choice but to make a deal with the emir of Matar. Florence of Arabia (Part II)
Katherine Crummer (nee Akaterini Plessa) arrived in 1835 as the wife of a British army officer who went on to hold various magisterial positions in the colony of NSW.
– And indeed it was on these occasions that Mrs Rayland seemed to take peculiar pleasure in mortifying Mrs Somerive and her daughters; who dreaded these dinner days as those of the greatest penance; and who at Christmas, one of the periods of these formal dinners, have blest more than once the propitious snow; through which that important and magisterial personage, the body coachman of Mrs Rayland, did not choose to venture himself, or the six sleek animals of which he was sole governor; for on these occasions it was the established rule to send for the family, with the same solemnity and the same parade that had been used ever since the first sullen and reluctant reconciliation between Sir Hildebrand and his sister; when she dared to deviate from the fastidious arrogance of her family, and to marry a man who farmed his own estate – and who, though long settled as a very respectable land-owner, had not yet written Armiger after his name. The Old Manor House
He proves a match for the orchestral mass, with a magisterial entry and huge singing tone.
Yin Zang Yan, a stereotypical Fu Manchu style Chinese man, dressed as a mandarin, glances around magisterially.
Payne hits the ground running in the deceptively simple, inimitable style of Edgar Allen Poe meets Margaret Thatcher:When did you last come across the words "coruscating" or "magisterial"? Archive 2004-08-01
All absolute lordly power is in God originally: all lordly magisterial mediatory power is in Christ dispensatorily: all official, stewardly power is by delegation from Christ only in the church guides [93] ministerially, as the only proper subject thereof that may exercise the same lawfully in Christ's name: yet all power, both magisterial in Christ, and ministerial in Christ's officers, is for the The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
Much is made of whether it is a "real" quagga or not, but according to Jonathan Kingdon, in Volume 3 B of his magisterial 7- volume East African Mammals, the quagga is a mere race, conspecific with the common zebra. Back to the Blog!
Both return to early quartos of the plays in question, bypassing Jonson's magisterial - perhaps too magisterial - reworkings of them in his 1616 Folio: the plays that emerge are fresh, exuberant, and distinctly unfamiliar.
Instead of being terminated, these pilot projects should be expanded to other magisterial districts.
This quotation is the epigraph to David Halberstam's magisterial ‘Summer of '49,’ surely one of the most influential books in the baseball literary canon.
He was also confined to the magisterial area of lower Tugela in Natal. Freedom for his people was the only reward Baba sought
‘The new by-laws first need to be certified by the magistrates of the various magisterial districts in the municipal area of Johannesburg, which could take up to two weeks,’ said De Klerk.
The presiding magistrate did not turn up to court, having had magisterial duties at the La Brea district.
Let the recognizances be estreated," was the magisterial comment. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
Beck had turned away in wrath from the table, and advancing with a magisterial step to the door, he threw it open; as if he thought, that longer to breathe the same air with the person he had excommunicated, would infect him with his own curses. The Scottish Chiefs
This judgment does not affect all cottage owners along the coast as many people with houses in the area do have magisterial permission to occupy them.
The performers look directly at us - here is no subterfuge, no stage personas, just magisterial skill on transparent display.
In film after film, Kubrick's misanthropy - the magisterial technique that reduced the actors in his films to stick figures carrying out his bidding - represented the triumph of the mechanical over the human.
With their aid he took an audience of aspiring civil servants through a magisterial ecological history of the Himalaya: the glaciers, the rivers, the forests, the fields.
However, these issues are really just hairsplitting; it is difficult to find fault with such a magisterial work simply because the author did not cast an already broad net even wider.
Roy Keane, perhaps, at his most magisterial, used to command the midfield and dictate traffic.
managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way
It was expected that the controlled area, which already included 16 magisterial districts between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, would be significantly expanded and could include hundreds of square kilometres.
In Schumann's Fourth Symphony his measured speeds are so subtly controlled that again squareness is avoided, while Emil Gilels gives a magisterial account of the Piano Concerto, crisply lightened in the central Intermezzo.
Reich of the Black Sun, by Joseph Farrell; continuing our Secrets of the Second World War theme, we come to this magisterial compendium of Nazi Secret Technology and Refuge theory and practice, in which our author looks over the questions of occult vril, anti-gravity, secret SS A-bomb projects, vortex engines, Antarctic bases, flying saucers, and the Fourth Reich with a pitch-perfect combination of overt skepticism and total gullibility. Kenneth Hite's Journal
Another big talking point will be the magisterial presence of Ryu Seung Min, the Olympic champion from South Korea, whose footwork has left spectators across the planet gasping for breath.
It is a magisterial work by a polyhistor who can disclose an overwhelmingly large number of viewpoints of men's behaviour as mass beings. Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 - Presentation Speech
In a truly magisterial way he gave it the aura of absolute certainty and unassailability which did much to ensure its dominating position in the study of ancient philosophy until today.
It is a magisterial work by a polyhistor who knows how to reveal an overwhelmingly large number of viewpoints of men's behaviour as mass beings. Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 - Press Release
A buoyant optimism and a stoic acceptance of finitude, a blood-rush of ecstasy and an acquiescence in the logic of mortality have alternated in this magisterial painter's art for more than four decades.
In his magisterial book on leadership, James MacGregor Burns describes the intellectual as someone concerned with ‘values, purposes and ends that transcend immediate needs’.
Hay addresses magisterial misconduct in ‘Dread of the Crown Office: the English Magistracy and King's Bench 1740-1800’.
The rest of the programme is made up of divertissements from BRB's current repertory: the sublime pas de deux that closes Ashton's The Dream; dances from Act I of the great Petipa/ Delibes comedy Coppélia; the magisterial grand pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty Act III and an excerpt from Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée. This week's new dance
She would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.
The reader should know," writes Henry Kissinger in his lengthy coronation of John Lewis Gaddis's "magisterial" biography of the American foreign-policy seer and remonstrant George Kennan in the November 13 New York Times Book Review, "that for the past decade, I have occasionally met with the students of the Grand Strategy seminar John Gaddis conducts at Yale and that we encounter each other on social occasions from time to time. Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale
There is no official magisterial teaching either about condoms, or about anti-ovulatory pills or diaphragms.
In 1883 Howitt's magisterial district was enlarged to include south Gippsland.
official magisterial functions
Overseen by the Chief Magistrate of Johannesburg, it will have the power of an ordinary magistrate's court, with its jurisdiction limited to the Johannesburg magisterial district.
In film after film, the director's misanthropy - the magisterial technique that reduced the actors in his films to stick figures carrying out his bidding - represented the triumph of the mechanical over the human.
Below this kind of circumstance, entrepreneur became lifelong restrict official of magisterial or accurate government.
Their magisterial collaboration with Yefim Bronfman on Brahms's masterpiece was a real event!
Magisterial palaces and impressive churches sit alongside simple, scenic quaysides and straw-hatted gondoliers.
For some, he is a hero, all the more admirable in his magisterial self-regard.
Port Elizabeth Chief Magistrate Peter Rothman, who oversees 43 magisterial districts, including East London, said representations were being made to the justice department to address the shortfalls.
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease is a magisterial work.
Just as James Joyce made it impossible for all Irish writers to novelize Dublin, so definitive and magisterial was his Ulysses, so Fellini's Roma seems to have dazzled Italian filmmakers to the cinematic potential of their capital.
Fine schedules are currently with the chief magistrates for the 10 magisterial districts of Johannesburg, who have to formally approve the structures.
It may be that John Paul changed course somewhat after he had surveyed the Catholic world from Peter's throne, and that the credit he got for bringing down the Iron Curtain emboldened him to act magisterially rather than collegially. In Search of a Pope
A vital and life-changing work that has dramatically revised the way women talk and think about themselves, Beauvoir's magisterial treatise continues to provoke and inspire.
His tweets also offer reminders, should we need them, of his magisterial political correctness. Times, Sunday Times
He might read Michael Buckley's magisterial study of scientific scrutinies of religion ever since the Enlightenment.

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