How To Use Masterful In A Sentence
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Masterful with machinery, he patented several mechanical inventions which had varying degrees of viability.
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Her masterful brush strokes and use of colour fired up many critics and curators and received immediate recognition.
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He blocked errant pitches in the dirt, expertly framed borderline tosses, turning them into strikes and worked masterfully with pitchers.
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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.
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But as Leider's impressive research and masterful writing shows, off-screen he was full of contradictions.
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His intense, swaggering stage presence and masterful violin playing has won him both fans and critical acclaim all over the world.
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Many have called Sonia's action, a masterful strategy, and even if this were to be true, it does not matter.
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My necessarily abridged synopsis of the play does a complicated and layered work little justice, so you'll have to just take my word that this is a masterful production that has it all.
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These exquisite works are now available in masterfully reproduced limited editions on canvas that capture all the detail and rich vibrancy of the originals.
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This simple plot is developed masterfully through a narrative technique which employs a series of vignettes giving an appropriately hazy yet sublime sense of situation and setting.
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Putner's satire on the supposedly streetwise US stand-up scene is biting: he conveys masterfully the gulf between Stevens's self-image and the bathetic reality.
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It all adds up to masterfully constructed entertainment that hasn't lost any of its impact over four decades of homages and rip-offs.
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Brandon's been a friend of mine for a really long time, but Eric Stephenson is the one who masterfully orchestrated the deal to co-publish King City with TokyoPop and Image Comics," Keatinge said.
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Klein handled the situation in a masterful way.
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What he understands and articulates masterfully is the degree to which people relate without language, simply through the way they behave to and with each other.
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He in particular is singled out in the painting by his broad brimmed hat, distinctive garb, and masterful gesture.
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Here, we have seventy-two songs, most of inspired creation and a good many of masterful quality.
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Yazaki's masterful but all-too-infrequent oeuvre, a marked contrast to 2006's colorful, multistranded (if equally femme-centric) "Strawberry Shortcakes.
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What was a masterful, elegiac character study in the mould of Le Carré's classic A Perfect Spy becomes an angry disquisition on contemporary geopolitics.
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The UK-based international physical theatre company is known for its masterful contemporary stage presentations.
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She studied with the newly controversial Glenn Black at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, N.Y. She describes Black as "a masterful yogi and a bodyworker who specializes in a type of Orthopedic Physical Therapy called Bodytuning" she continues, a bit tongue-in-cheek "my relationship with my teacher is a very old fashioned mentor-mentee, very wax-on wax-off.
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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.
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His handling of the debacle was masterful, saving the parent company from financial collapse.
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Under his masterful direction, with its eccentric perspectives and brilliant compositions, everything comes together delightfully.
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The book she was completing when she passed in 2000 is a collection of epics and shorter lyric poems that affirm her place as one of the most significant and masterful poets of the 20th century.
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Or maybe it is her masterful use of gold inlay, a technique derived from Renaissance artists.
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Michael Kors drilled down into his core Wednesday morning at Bryant Park with a collection of clothes masterfully merchandized, from the dramatic fur coats to belts and legwarmers.
Into Michael Kor's Core
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If he harbors any fear of my displeasure, he conceals it masterfully.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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Grotesque ideas, but masterful ideas, masterfully shaping the child mind wherein they germinated; burrowing in clutchy roots; pressing up in strong young saplings.
This Freedom
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He ran against one of the most experienced incumbent president of the century: a two-term veep, former head of the CIA and incumbent president who presided masterfully over the end of the Cold War.
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Once again, I called our pediatrician—a mother of six at the time—to be sure I was masterfully trained on the technique.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
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The real star is director Ava Roy, whose masterful use of the entire island was both subtle and innovative; at times organic (the gravedigger scene was on a small mountain of rubble) and striking (Ophelia's madness was played inside a wide open hospital room threaded with white twine, empty birdcages, and lilting bird down.)
Lauren Gunderson: Wild and Whirling Words: An Audacious Hamlet on Alcatraz
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When he realized his long-held aspiration of becoming a writer by masterfully crafting eight gay characters in his play, which was initially produced off-Broadway by the cutting-edge Playwrights Unit, no one was more surprised than Mart Crowley himself -- who heeded and simultaneously took on the powerful, straight New York theater critic, Stanley Kauffmann of the New York Times.
Penelope Andrew: Gay Icons and American Dreams in New Documentary: Making the Boys
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Grant never called for help in his life, but just then I seemed to catch a glimpse, within the masterful commander and veteran statesman, of the thin-skinned Scotch yokel from the Ohio tanyard uneasily adrift in an old so-superior world which he'd have liked to despise but couldn't help feeling in awe of.
Watershed
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In other words, we know nothing about our deft and masterful artist except for his name.
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The drawings have a Photo-Realist literalness, and a dense, satiny gloss accenting edges and shadows in a masterful counterpoint of tonal values.
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In a masterful bit of understatement, Feinstein blamed [millions of dollars in losses] on “noticeably subpar” food and service.
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Buddy's masterful multi-instrumentalism and Julie's sugar-cutting vocals ring in the truth.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Six
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Still, the masterful tone and astonishingly sophisticated writing in this novel redeem a lot of the awkwardness.
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All six of the Vol’s scoring drives covered more than 80 yards, with freshman QBs Brent Schaeffer and Erik Ainge directed the drives in masterful fashion.
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His editing job, however, is masterful, with dozens of full and partial conversations painting a dark societal picture bound to leave the most open of minds believing that western civilization really is careening down the dumper.
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Ms. Aschan proves a masterful orchestrator of the unspoken, the intolerable pause, and the laser-beam gaze.
Women's Intuition on the Big Screen
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He was a masterful but a pleasant man, very civil to customers and to his friends generally while they took him the right way; but one who could be a Tartar if he were offended, holding an opinion that his position as landlord of an inn was one requiring masterdom.
The American Senator
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It was a former watermill, masterfully converted into a cosy modern Bed-and-Breakfast hotel, with two rooms and a bunkhouse outside.
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It is a masterful performance spoken in a second language which has clearly improved over the years.
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Lt. Lane had never been required to repel any kind of onslaught since he'd taken command, but he was a well-trained Federation officer and had a masterful knowledge of all the defense tactics at his disposal.
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Every feature was strong and rugged, which gave his countenance an expression masterful to the point of being almost surly when it was in repose; but it was a face which caused most men -- and women over thirty -- to turn for a second glance.
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
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Carroll's performance is masterful and has been deservedly acclaimed by local critics.
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It's a bitch being so multi-talented - an ideal host, an excellent chef, a friend to the stars, a masterful party DJ.
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He also thinks the country's officialdom is masterful at manipulation.
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I of course had little time to think, and dropped a masterful head-first tackle into the lead piller, right in front of ExerCare.
Tuesday, Nov. 24 – The Bleat.
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As on earlier discs, he enlivens Caribbean traditions with masterful jazz piano, by turns clamorous, poignant, playful and even swinging.
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This is where he is at his most masterful, sculpting emotions and perceptions with the ease and artistry of a great writer.
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His performance remains masterful for its integrity and sincerity: a gulp made his emotions evident yet kept them in check.
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But if you like to watch beautiful images and at the same time engross yourself in a masterful world, at times unexpectedly keeping you at the edge of your seat, I recommend Black Swan as one of the best films of 2010, sure to be an Oscar contender in major categories.
Michael Russnow: Black Swan: A Must See Even if Ballet Ain't Your Thing
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I loved the first one for its sophisticated camerawork, intricate plot and masterful performances.
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Yesterday he picked up all four wickets with a masterful display of swing bowling.
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A visually masterful film, it is also a work that is richly entertaining and original in the way Lewis explores various facets of Australiana.
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Technically, it is quite masterful, but is at times distracting in its cleverness.
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The slave-girls suffer first from these masterful young persons and then it is the turn of the eunuchry.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest
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Audiard has done a masterful job of creating a brash, nervy film that is poignant without ever being pretentious.
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Arguably, only a masterful scholar could have convinced so many people to accept such an unlikely scenario.
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It's a masterful study of gentle eccentricity.
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USATODAY. com - Brazil masterful in ousting U.S. men in semis
USATODAY.com - Brazil masterful in ousting U.S. men in semis
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There are no shortcuts to masterful results; the students must control their efforts.
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Him she remembered -- Klakee-Nah, the head-man of the village, the friend of the missionaries and the traders, a large man thewed like a giant, with kindly eyes and masterful ways, and striding with a consciousness of crude royalty in his carriage.
The Wit of Porportuk
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Her book, a masterful retrieval of the natural law perspective of medieval theologians and canonists, contributes significantly to current debates in fundamental moral theology.
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Even for those scholars with a masterful knowledge of English, the situation is not completely trouble-free.
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So declares the enigmatic Driver in this masterfully convoluted neo-noir, which ranges from the dive bars and flyblown motels of Los Angeles to seedy strip malls dotting the Arizona desert.
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It was a masterful performance by the world's top-ranked player, who mixed powerful ground strokes, flashing returns, topspin lobs and all-court hustle to beat Henman for the sixth straight time.
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As much as I can see trevor being a masterful synchronized swimmer or whatever his said. last night i talked to ron for hours and hours after I got home. he was in vancouver, standing on the street in the semi-rain. i can't wait for him to come home - he'll be here Friday for the wedding! i'm more excited for Ron to be here than i am for the wedding.
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Zidane is a masterful maestro in the midfield with astonishing moves and is truly a legend among legends.
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Masterful with machinery, he patented several mechanical inventions which had varying degrees of viability.
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Creative Assembly has done a masterful job of balancing the various factions' capabilities while still retaining a significant measure of historical accuracy.
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Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has these sets of rules for surviving the holocaust, masterfully explored in the beginning of the movie as we see how the fatties were the first to die because they couldn't run fast enough.
Darkly Dreaming David
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The historiographic themes of Indian policy and early-nineteenth-century U.S. military history come together masterfully in the work of Francis Paul Prucha; all of it is invaluable, but The Sword of the Republic 1968 is a good place to begin.
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He was masterful and imaginative, but his masterfulness tended to ungenerousness and his imagination to vagary and mischievous exaggeration.
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Bays does a masterful job of suggesting activities that begin to give glimpses of insight into soteriology without preaching that penal substitution is the only valid way of understanding salvation.
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Kate done some dandy shortarm work in the clinches and hurled him off on his back like the other one; then he stands there sharpening his claws on the bark and grinning in a masterful way.
Somewhere in Red Gap
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Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest
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But it wasn't just the kids who loved his masterful two-hour solo performance.
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That he has persisted, and done a masterful job of using their attempts to silence him or manipulate his information into pablum is to his credit.
Censorship and Information Manipulation
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Ben Vereen is nothing short of masterful, a dynamo of energy and enthusiasm that carries the show from beginning to end.
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It was a masterful, controlled performance under the most intense pressure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course, some of the most powerful political regimes are masterful at using both illusion and coercion.
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Once she became a prosecutor, she quickly established herself as a masterful trial lawyer.
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The modulation from aggrieved femininity to fawning submissiveness in her wooing is masterfully handled.
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She shows a masterful attention to detail, embellishing a jade damask and sable stole with a quilted Asian-inspired pattern or adding delicate black feathers to the high neckline of a sleeveless black-to-lime chiffon gown.
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He masterfully creates stories that are perfectly paced and clinically finished.
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And let's make it at least 24 months before a film can be referred to as masterfully or beautifully "restored.
Home Theater Forum
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Crisp dialogue and masterful pacing hallmarked his writing, and his reputation for multifaceted villains made him a sought-after writer by many editors.
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This was Ireland in dominant mode, masterful and confident in their control as they turned on the style.
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It's a masterful performance that is easily among his most bare and honest.
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He said a lot of other things that suggested what a masterful politician Bill can be.
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This was a masterful combination of flavours and textures - and excellent value too.
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The poet's truth to Nature in his 'gummy' chestnut-buds, and to Art in the 'long green box 'of mignonette -- and that masterful touch of likening the first intrusion of love into the virgin bosom of the Miller's daughter to the plunging of a water-rat into the mill-dam -- these are beauties which, we do not fear to say, equal anything even in Keats.
Early Reviews of English Poets
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If you hold such a belief, you have to phrase your words accordingly, and Schmitt did so masterfully.
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Watson is a masterful player, a strong singer and an obvious devotee of the blues.
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The original illustrations and story of the beloved The Lorax book from Dr. Seuss is masterfully presented with great narration and the ability to touch anything in the illustrations and have it connected to the written word.
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But if we take the task of analyzing terms to be that of making explicit and systematizing the platitudes employing that term affirmed by masterful users of that term (Smith 1994, pp. 29-32), and we note that many thoughtful Jews and Christians who otherwise appear to be masterful users of the language of moral obligation have rejected, either explicitly or implicitly, the notion that an act is obligatory if and only if it has been commanded by God, then we would have some reason to doubt whether the analysis formulation of theological voluntarism is defensible.
Theological Voluntarism
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Patrick McDaid, Patrick Brolly and Pius McCarron were injured, though whether by gunfire or otherwise was a matter of controversy. (much detail) The evidence of the soldiers is then summed up in one of the most masterfully written passages so far: (summary of why the soldiers 'accounts must be wrong)
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It was as if he had delivered some masterful tactical tablet of stone.
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A masterful left-handed opening batsman and brilliant slip fielder.
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The show has perfected the formula of well-chosen guest stars (Daily Show vets Rob Corddry and John Oliver, alt-comedy god Patton Oswalt, and, yes, Betty White, who's better in small doses like this week's cameo); snappy, pop-reference-rich dialogue; physical shtick from the masterful likes of Chevy Chase and Ken Jeong; and unexpected moments of M*A*S*H/Scrubs-esque sincerity.
Cheers & Jeers: Community Makes the Grade
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'Well, Wych?' he said, looking at her with the grey eyes full of love, and full of delight in her, and full of admiration of her; not the less, soft as they were, full also of that expression which is called masterful when people do not like it.
The Gold of Chickaree
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Now the steam train's award-winning buffet car, which boasts a host of real ales including York Brewery's masterful Stonewall, is to run every day during the summer.
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His restraint is deliberate and masterful: this is not the explosion of colour or characters that defined Spirited Away or Ponyo.
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But before she had time to decide which of the unlively men, loitering round the carriages or helping stout old dowagers up slim iron ladders, was sufficiently lugubrious to be identified as the martyr of the ballot-box, she was absorbed by a tall, masterful figure, whose face had the radiance of easeful success, and whose hands were clapping at some nuance of style which had escaped the palms of the great circular mob.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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With the Clintons, such masterful performances can seem surreal, since they inevitably unfold against a backdrop of turmoil and controversy.
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Imagine is a masterful performance.
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There are only moments in which idiots like us get masterfully played by the gods.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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A masterful left-handed opening batsman and brilliant slip fielder.
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Arbus was also masterful at capturing the normalness of those that mainstream society branded as deviants or freaks.
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But aside from Edith Massey's masterful turn as Queen Charlotta, the whole repellent realm makes little sense.
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His football is elegant and masterful, charged with technique and vision.
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His confidence and his ability to keep one step ahead of the questions are masterful.
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It is a masterful naturalistic performance, combining anger and despair with humour, resilience and altruism.
Times, Sunday Times
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What follows is a groundbreaking, at times haunting portrait rendered entirely through masterfully selected and edited official news footage, home movies and propaganda shot from 1965 to 1989.
Reconstructive History
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Shining with repartee between two great wits, the play is a masterful compendium of playful banter revealing Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell in scenes of both confrontation and reconciliation.
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‘Deforcement — spulzie-stouthrief — masterful rescue!’ exclaimed Peter Peebles, scandalized at the resistance offered to the law in the person of Nicholas Faggot.
Redgauntlet
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It's a masterful Brueghel composition, leading the eye along a zigzag path to a windmill perched pertly on the distant horizon.
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A canny operator who staged a masterful performance of his death, with Amaru's help.
INCA GOLD
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So what on earth was such a woman, a masterful, strident, self-possessed and sharp-edged woman, doing to herself with a man who repeatedly betrayed and humiliated her?
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With the Clintons, such masterful performances can seem surreal, since they inevitably unfold against a backdrop of turmoil and controversy.
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The Client List — in which Love plays a mother-turned-hooker inspired by a true story, of course — may not be as deep as, say, Temple Grandin or as masterful as The Pillars of the Earth, but it's a fun, entertaining Lifetime flick that engrosses you on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
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A whodunnit set in Hell and Heaven feels like it should contain some sort of masterful philosophical insight.
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He began making recordings under his own name in the mid-'80s - around the time he was diagnosed with HIV - and for the better part of the next two decades, became known as a masterful interpreter and accompanist in his own right.
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Along the hulls of lean privateers rows of gun-ports stared hungrily at rotund merchantmen, and here and there the dark even lines of a heavy warship loured over lesser craft with masterful menace.
The Gates of Noon
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Taylor Branch's three-volume biography of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is variously described as masterful, epic, a narrative tour-de-force -- the definitive story of the civil rights movement in America's past century.
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He was an unimpressive figure physically, weedy and foppish, and slightly lame since birth, but when he addressed the Members of Parliament he made them flinch with his phrases of masterful contempt.
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Her valetudinarian but masterful father, son of a wool merchant, became sufficiently well-to-do to retire from business.
Ada Leverson.
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They were shrewd, but not smart; manipulative but not masterful.
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It's a paean to the beauty of the English countryside and a masterful study of gentle eccentricity.
Times, Sunday Times
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In these works from 1991, large-scale sheets and smaller works on paper executed in etching and aquatint, he employs an eloquent Picasso-like line with masterful draftsmanship and bravura, giving sly reference to Picasso, Dali, Velazquez, etc.
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McGillion was masterful in hiding Ward's peccadilloes, including his three-day disappearance during the Palm Sunday Massacre.
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Strange is masterful in her ability to capture and juxtapose the audible qualities of language alongside the literary tools of assonance and alliteration.
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A combination of Julius Caesar, Bertold Brecht, Benito Mussolini and Huey Long biopic it is a masterful novel, an in depth portrait of the struggles even ignoble politicians face and a meditation on the price of politics.
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Cajuns improvised and improved the instruments first by bending rake tines, replacing rasps and notched gourds used in Afro-Caribbean music with washboards, and eventually producing their own masterful accordions.
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The extraordinary solo of one female dancer, lifting her torso and undulating serpentine fashion on her stomach across the stage, was nothing short of masterful.
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She remembered Kanner -- remembered, also, Caris 'uneasiness at operating without a master, or with only the dottily masterful Antryg to give him orders.
The Silent Tower
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It was a masterful, controlled performance under the most intense pressure.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a masterful naturalistic performance, combining anger and despair with humour, resilience and altruism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Impressive not only for its content and candor, but because the guy can flat-out write — he turns a phrase masterfully, but also has a talent for finding the illuminating perspective or a telling anecdote.
Science and Culture at the White House
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Kevin Pollack invests his version with the subtle genius of a masterful character study.
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What follows is masterful journalism, one of the best books about the dark side of the web.
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Once she became a prosecutor, she quickly established herself as a masterful trial lawyer.
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In other words, we know nothing about our deft and masterful artist except for his name.
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It's a paean to the beauty of the English countryside and a masterful study of gentle eccentricity.
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His summer transfer dealings were masterful; chunks of solid team-building.
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‘The Music Man’ is a masterful musical from 1957 about a traveling con-man who, for the first time in a long career of band-themed flimflammery, finally gets his foot caught in an Iowa door.
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The effort stands as an excellent example of the masterful execution of a joint special operation.
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Even though modern train berths are masterfully designed to use every inch of space, you won't be spreading your arms and twirling around much.
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If I don’t believe in auteur theory, why am I obsessing on Orson Welles’ masterful technique?
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Indeed, this masterful handling of imagery also furnishes a narrative version of a stereopticon.
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Schneider and the other men pattered after him like puppy dogs in the wake of a masterful mastiff.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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Leimbach masterfully conjures the hothouse atmosphere of foreign correspondents in Saigon in the late 1960s.
The Man From Saigon by Marti Leimbach: Book summary
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Yes ... 'twould be about ten years since she'd dropped Cumming's acquaintance abruptly, and my lurid imagination could conjure up the scene in some silken nest of sin around South Audley Street, circa 1880, Cumming all moustachioed and masterful in his long combinations and my adulterous angel bursting proudly out of her corset as they slanged each other across the crumpled sheets of shame.
Watershed
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On one level it was masterful, but it was also riddled with amazing leaps of logic and agonizing moments of drama.
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Goldstein brings together the fruit of extensive research and massive erudition in multiple disciplines, wielding the tools of source, genre, redaction, and textual criticism with masterful force.
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If I were able to play any instrument with masterful skill and grace it would be the cello.
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His performance remains masterful for its integrity and sincerity: a gulp made his emotions evident yet kept them in check.
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His masterful performance was something of a unicorn.
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By setting one voice against three, Byrd masterfully harnesses the emphatic qualities of both polyphony and homophony: the text repetition of the former and the clarity and unity of the latter.
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Bunyan's archetypal characters are dramatically illustrated through fifty masterful watercolor portraits by Barry Moser.
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It shows someone who had a masterful command of language that gave the facility to speak and write eloquently.
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The violinist gave a masterful performance.
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She is masterful in her ability to capture and juxtapose the audible qualities of language alongside the literary tools of assonance and alliteration.
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The book reveals its oddities and back-story in tiny sips, interspersed masterfully through the fast-paced action.
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The earrings had been masterfully shaped into three ivy vines that wove around each other.
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During the debate in the U.N. Security Council on January 6, 2009 the Israeli Ambassador Gabriela Shalev delivered a speech that can only be described as masterfully crafted lies, myths, and spin to defend the indefensible in Israel's "genocide du jour" against the Palestinians that began in 1944.
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For a glimpse of that masterful figure, fast forward to "Almost Famous" and the casual drop of "antidisestablishmentarianism" into a heated diss, or the arresting "No Love", which pits a pinging Em in a friendly against Lil Wayne.
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Yesterday he picked up all four wickets with a masterful display of swing bowling.
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masterful technique
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His interpretation of literary texts and memoirs, especially those from the nineteenth century, is masterful.
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It is unquestionably masterful in its mellow execution, but ultimately it's background music for designer shopping.
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masterfully" about the deliberate twisting and revision of my views to fit the racist, bigoted, distorted and clouded "lens" through which the RA letters sees everything poorly.
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If India's batting was masterful, their bowling in truly testing conditions was even more creditable.
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Though she did not graduate with a specific distinction, she was known as a masterful storyteller.
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Thomas's early discussion of the way theoretical sciences are distinguished from one another in the course of his exposition of the tractate of Boethius On the Trinity is masterful.
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Buddy\'s masterful multi-instrumentalism and Julie\'s sugar-cutting vocals ring in the truth.
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Tonnie Bernhardson as Zuleika's old mother recalls her masterful performance as the mother in UCC's production of "Gypsy" a couple of years ago, although here in a smaller role.
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What Evans has provided, however, is a well-written and masterful introduction to this great monastic contemplative and doctor of the church.
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a masterful speaker
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A masterful left-handed opening batsman and brilliant slip fielder.
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And then, when there were no more full bites left, the last three of the group slid across the grass to absorb the blood and tissue from the lawn, laid low and sopping up his traces with their absorbant Kharal bodies, efficient and masterful to watch—like serpentine bio-cleaners, sliding on their bellies and wiping the land squeaky clean.
The Hiders
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a stern and stubborn nature that those who liked him called masterful, and that those who disliked him -- a more numerous body -- termed tyrannical.
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Yet the Floyd's masterful quadrophonic pension plan has retained an amazing capacity to knock people sideways.
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This figure, now missing its head, is a masterful example of a rare type known as steatopygous, characterized by a fleshy abdomen and massive thighs and buttocks.
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When you don't know what you're doing it's usually best to adopt the pose of masterful inactivity and do nothing.
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His digressive impulses held in check, Prince returns to what he's so masterfully good at: songcraft and groove.
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I believe there is an integrity that is lost when a piece chosen for exhibiting masterful writing skill is chopped down to mere syntactical proficiency and stripped of its essence.
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It's a masterful study of gentle eccentricity.
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It is a masterful naturalistic performance, combining anger and despair with humour, resilience and altruism.
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He bored into the core of our command and control business, and was particularly masterful in assessing deficiencies and correcting them.
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It's a paean to the beauty of the English countryside and a masterful study of gentle eccentricity.
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With the Clintons, such masterful performances can seem surreal, since they inevitably unfold against a backdrop of turmoil and controversy.
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Imagine is a masterful performance.
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The other was a shrewd-looking, keen-faced, sparely-built man, with somewhat aquiline nose and straight narrow forehead, not at all bad-looking or evil-looking and with an air of strong determination; in short, what one calls a masterful man.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
