How To Use Masterstroke In A Sentence
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So, tactically, it is a masterstroke, with one fatal flaw.
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Opinion is divided on whether her surprise resignation as governor in July was a political masterstroke or suicide.
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What looked like a masterstroke three years ago, now seems like a poorly timed deal that has saddled the group with uncomfortable debts.
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That the protector is a female terminator is a masterstroke, but it's Sarah Connor's character that really pushes the envelope.
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It was a political coup de theatre and it has proved a masterstroke.
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That ad campaign was an absolute masterstroke.
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It was to prove a masterstroke.
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The President glowed with pride and a sense of accomplishment after this masterstroke of personal diplomacy.
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What looked like a masterstroke three years ago, now seems like a poorly timed deal that has saddled the group with uncomfortable debts.
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The impact he has will be immediate and represents something of a short-term masterstroke by the club's American owners in terms of cementing their own popularity.
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Having said that, the multitouch trackpad is an absolute masterstroke – I find a regular mouse or trackpad almost unusable now.
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It proved an awardwinning masterstroke, nearly 30 years after its original launch.
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 It's as if they have these personality traits grafted onto them, and then, in a final "masterstroke," made aware that they don't have real personalities.
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The female peacekeepers, particularly, have proved a masterstroke.
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What a masterstroke of Charles to have his mother, Her Majesty the Queen, make the first speech!
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That ad campaign was an absolute masterstroke.
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But the masterstroke was the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale," in a cool percussive arrangement that barreled along like a steam train.
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Again, Mendelssohn saw the concerto form as a field for experiment and his idea of continuing the soloist's cadenza figuration in the first movement over the recapitulation in the orchestra was later hailed by Ravel as a masterstroke.
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Ms. Kaplan quotes one observer as saying that Trujillo's offer was "one of the boldest masterstrokes of modern press agentry.
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Smart thinks it will last longer, thanks to another masterstroke by the management.
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Contemporary system economics basically is along two academic masterstroke development.
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Green Onions came fourth, a tactical masterstroke.
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What looked like a gamble turned out to be a tactical masterstroke.
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Hopefully it proves a masterstroke.
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Which seems less like a masterstroke than a tricky compromise hastily designed to quell a rebellion.
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Which seems less like a masterstroke than a tricky compromise hastily designed to quell a rebellion.
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Sinclair, on a whim that was a PR masterstroke, allowed the pressmen in before most of the prisoners had been evacuated.
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Perhaps Opechancanough thought his masterstroke would impel the whites to withdraw.
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Having this man in the Lords on their behalf is not a 'masterstroke' but more like bad luck.
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It was another masterstroke of man-management.
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Compared to this, that whole tuition fees business seems like a political masterstroke.
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It is not as if it is a tactical masterstroke.
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It appeared to be a political masterstroke.
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In a masterstroke of casting, He plays Vanya as a bored and disappointed man who entertains himself by playing the Glasgow wind-up merchant.
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Which seems less like a masterstroke than a tricky compromise hastily designed to quell a rebellion.
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Of course, there is a way that the new viaduct plan might fairly be called a masterstroke and a bargain.
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But enlisting Ms. Yingluck as what he describes as his "clone" seems to be a masterstroke, analysts say.
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His decision to change the team's formation for the final match was a masterstroke.
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Whitechapel is going to have to pull off some kind of masterstroke next week to wrap this one up in any way that's remotely convincing.
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But yesterday she pulled off a masterstroke when she stepped on to the stage.
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Anchises," but Mr. Bokaer's masterstroke was the casting of Valda Setterfield, who, in her
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Bringing back Mandelson could be seen as a masterstroke in that: it will grab the headlines away from the more controversial moves; bring in from the old one of the most talented, and arguably mistreated New Labour politicians during the past decade; and demonstrate Gordon has sufficient magnamimity to welcome back someone against whom he had long directed the blowlamp of his visceral dislike.
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Investigators then pulled a masterstroke.
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Opinion is divided on whether her surprise resignation as governor in July was a political masterstroke or suicide.
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His promise during the campaign to go to Korea if elected to try to bring the war to an end was a political masterstroke.
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Another masterstroke was the decision to shoot on location, placing the film firmly in the grand, raw tradition of Peter Brook's
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Instead, it has proved a true masterstroke and hats off to the board for giving him the chance.
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But what today looks like a masterstroke that has catapulted BarCap from being an also-ran on Wall Street into a credible competitor could easily have turned out disastrously.
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His masterstroke was a proclamation by letter of his abhorrence of the fugitive slave law.
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The other casting masterstroke is Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.
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FFS you are a manager of a club, why to say things which you are not going to do or not capable of doing … and after all this if we win the cl or pl which is highly highly unlikely … it would be just a flash in the pan and not wenger's masterstroke … david if we have another fruitless season (which is on the cards!) im sure cesc will leave … its wengers last year also .. so why not sell him and get another 100 mil for the club?! its pretty sad when players like inler turn you down, as have others …
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