Adjective : a masterly presentation of the budget. From Dictionary.com.
‘With pleasure,’ said I, and playing another measure in masterly fashion, sang thereto these couplets. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Parker, indeed, they could not easily turn away, but Lord Peter found himself confronted with a surly manner and what Lord Beaconsfield described as a masterly inactivity. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Body]
He calls Sayers 'pen "masterly" that wrote these lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature] Reference
In an article published later in 1914, Cohen, Felix Frankfurter's roommate during their years of graduate study at Harvard, praised Pound's "masterly" article, albeit faintly. From Wordnik.com. [Legal History Blog] Reference
Deputies, and it was always a masterly presentation. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
Now, by a masterly series of campaigns in the West and. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Arnold's entry was a masterly piece of political theater. From Wordnik.com. [Only in California] Reference
His masterly, widely popular work did much to right them. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Parks, 1912-2006: The Eye of the Storm] Reference
But it's not the masterly plotting that has excited the critics. From Wordnik.com. [Fake Blair, Real Hatchet] Reference
"Cutting the railroad was a masterly stroke," said one of the umpires. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods] Reference
She has long been regarded as a masterly painter of women's experience. From Wordnik.com. [A PAINTER OF STORIES] Reference
"I declare!" exclaimed Susan Fitzgerald, carried away by this masterly logic. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Beneath all the masterly writing and acting, the finale is cleverly conventional. From Wordnik.com. [AN 'OFFICE' FAREWELL PARTY] Reference
It was typical of Gillespie that he achieved his masterly technique by doing everything wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Jazz's Last Hero Trumpeter] Reference
The notion that superstition is favorable to poesy, he dissipates with masterly conclusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Seminary of St. Sulpice, a man who had devoted all his masterly energies to that great undertaking. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
Cowell brought the most authority, as a music executive with decades of experience and a masterly mean streak. From Wordnik.com. ['Idol' Struggles To Re-Create Its Winning Panel] Reference
The museum did a masterly job of mounting this one: there are so few viewers, you really experience the painter's solitude. From Wordnik.com. [Rumble On The Ramps] Reference
His last public act was to address to the legislature of Illinois a masterly plea for the support of the war for the Union. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The country and the descendants of the race that created these masterly storiettes are surely worthy of careful consideration. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Christopher's determination to solve this morbid little mystery is what drives the action of Mark Haddon's masterly first novel. From Wordnik.com. ['Allowed To Be Odd'] Reference
Nor is that surprise lessened when we have gone through the masterly analysis of its contents, which Dr. Luard has given us in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
He would not run away, because, of course, he was not really afraid; but even a bear might be allowed to conduct a masterly retreat. From Wordnik.com. [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference
By masterly skill he brought this about, purchasing some shares outright, and giving shares in the new company as payment for others. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
This is a masterly collection, a treat for both readers who have never read Paley and for those eager to be reunited with an old friend. From Wordnik.com. [The World At Her Doorstep] Reference
All the discourses of Socrates are masterly, noble, new, and inquisitive; but that they are all true it may probably be too much to say. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
His first novel, "The Twenty-Seventh City," published three years ago, was a huge and masterly drama of St. Louis under siege, gripping and surreal and overwhelmingly convincing. From Wordnik.com. [Terra Not So Firma] Reference
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