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Masterly meaning
Executed in the manner of a master; showing competence and skill; masterful. | Like a master; arbitrary; domineering, imperious.
Synonyms of Masterly
Example sentences (14)
His book River, Railway and Ravine published in 2015 is a masterly account of Louis Harper’s suspension footbridges world wide.
In one early effort, Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion, floats on colored flowers under a group of brisk Chinese characters wearing an elegant robe drawn with an already masterly line.
Fukunaga’s film is shot with masterly restraint and shorn of sentimentality.
She delivered her performance on her own terms, and it was masterly.
Aëtius played them all off against one another in a masterly effort to keep the peace under Roman sovereignty.
But speaking generally, I have read this masterly argument with warm admiration and with the earnest hope that it may attract all the attention which it so well deserves".
He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.
He produced phonetic/phonolological treatments which were masterly for their time on the sound systems of Cantonese, Tswana (Sechuana as it was then known), Sinhalese, and Russian.
His analysis of the site was still regarded as "an outstanding contribution to Iron Age studies" with "a masterly consideration of the metalwork" by Sir Barry Cunliffe in 2012.
In this he gives a masterly survey of synagogal rites.
It is one of the most popular and oft-recorded of all piano concertos; pace Hutcheson "Schumann achieved a masterly work and we inherited the finest piano concerto since Mozart and Beethoven".
Not understandable in modern French, as "touché" means "emotionally touched". ; tour de force (also tour-de-force): lit. "feat of strength": a masterly or brilliant stroke, creation, effect, or accomplishment.
The latter's poetry was modeled on the old Manipravalam style abounding in Sanskrit words and terms, but it had a charm of its own when adapted to express new ideas in that masterly way characteristic of himself.
This reviewer concludes "Kim will endure because it is a beginning like all masterly ends.