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How To Use masterly In A Sentence

• The scene where she finds succour in tinted glasses when her eyesight has been shot away is masterly. Times, Sunday Times
• The description of the cultural and physical coarsening which the circumstances evoke is masterly. Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 - Press Release
• You get a sense of shared solitude, conveyed subtly but precisely, with masterly delicacy and without ostentatious ‘acting’.
• After such men as Morhof and Thomasius had prepared the way, (148) Frederick William I., himself a clever cameralist, and author of the masterly financial system of Prussia, took the important step of founding, at Halle and Frankfurt on the Oder, special chairs of economy and cameralistic science; which, considering the time, were very ably filled by Gasser and Dithmar. System der volkswirthschaft. English
• This is a masterly account: detailed but always readable, authoritative but strenuously objective.
• It is a masterly physical performance, because of the nature of the film.
• Ireland's masterly tactical performance was a shock but they were the better team, with more attacking invention. Times, Sunday Times
• Heine’s mental history, but because they are a specimen of his power in that kind of dithyrambic writing which, in less masterly hands, easily becomes ridiculous: The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
• The artist's use of contrast is masterly.
• The author eventually picks up the various threads of the plot and weaves them into a masterly conclusion.