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"masterly" Definitions
  1. showing great skill or understanding

295 Sentences With "masterly"

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Blessed with uncommonly large hands, Berry became a masterly guitarist.
All of it is masterly; none of it is necessary.
It didn't come about because of some masterly Democratic strategy.
In addition, Trump was masterly at diverting us from substance.
"Barocco" is masterly architecture: Every step is a building brick.
All in all, this is a very masterly, auspicious debut.
An executive's masterly performance justifies the compensation, in other words.
White's account of it all is a masterly historical synthesis.
It is masterly, confirming the work as Mr Bourne's best in years.
Thus, Fleabag ends its masterly run at 12 episodes and two seasons.
In this way the piece amounts to a masterly portrait of subjectivity.
It's a masterly party scene, full of intriguing whispers and telling interactions.
I liked the masterly way she kept Dar and Saul off guard.
Journeys to new lands used to inspire masterly works of literary nonfiction.
The result, though, is a masterly portrait of a titanic yet unfulfilled man.
It's a masterly composition, one which succeeds by the tensions of its juxtapositions.
Though eminently physical as a painter, he had little time for masterly, recognizable brushwork.
The formidable Chris Cooper, as a curmudgeonly Salinger, has a brief but masterly turn.
Aciman's novel is a masterly portrayal of arousal and the selves forged by passion.
Still, "Deposing Nathan" is a superb story, told in an original and masterly way.
Brundage unspools stories of the Clares' marriage and their home in this masterly thriller.
Mahathir was masterly in playing to the feelings of the mainly Muslim ethnic Malay majority.
His previous book was a masterly study of the American empires of Britain and Spain.
No foreknowledge of Chekhov is needed to understand "Afterplay" (nor to appreciate the masterly performances).
Mr. Bragg is masterly at extracting clear and interesting explanations of the most complex topics.
Andersson (translated by the fantastically named Sarah Death) does a masterly job reeling in the reader.
"Pious" is not the first word that Joy Williams's masterly short stories usually bring to mind.
Mr. Macintyre is masterly in using details to illustrate his heroes' bravery, élan and dogged perseverance.
It's a masterly display of depth — foreground, middle ground, background — and of the company's deep bench.
It was infectious, and the kind of masterly display of choreography not seen since Backstreet's Back.
But beyond their masterly construction, these small sculptures are created to empower and invigorate the wearer.
It is so masterly that it too is likely to inspire a new generation of film-makers.
Yet much of this masterly reportage empathetically evokes the militant republican world from which McConville's killers came.
Professor Rabassa was also a masterly commentator on the singular pleasures and perils of the translator's art.
I found myself wishing that Bullock's masterly rendition of "Dichterliebe" had been granted the same unadorned treatment.
Mr. Jasperse's collaging of past masters is itself masterly, alive with piquant detail (pointing fingers, thudding feet).
Maureen Dowd CLEVELAND — LIKE any masterly comic book villain, Donald Trump is reveling in conjuring a dystopia.
Leonard Cohen, the masterly songwriter who died this week at 82, intoned his songs with serene gravity.
Ann's death, handled with masterly tact, is the catalyst that sends Lincoln to practice law in Springfield.
When Ms. DiDonato performed the role in Strasbourg, France, last year, ResMusica said her interpretation was masterly.
They must be judged in person; in reproduction they lose the masterly touch that is Eisenman's signature.
Like most popular literary biographies, "Rumi's Secret" may not be especially masterly as a work of criticism.
The accompaniment, by the composer-pianist Timo Andres, deserved as much attention as Mr. Costanzo's masterly singing.
Those masterly memoirs are rare: Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" comes to mind.
Garth Greenwell's masterly debut ­novel, "What Belongs to You," provides a ringing answer to Updike's willfully dense question.
"Tartuffe", Molière's masterly lampoon of courtly vanity and hypocrisy, seemed fit for relocation to 21st-century Los Angeles.
Mr Modi, despite remaining a masterly showman and wielding an intimidating party machine, is no longer above criticism.
Their surreal world, conjured by the artist Mark Ryden, is a blend of kitsch and Old Masterly detail.
New mysteries appear as well, so readers can look forward to the continuation of this macabre, masterly series.
It is such a masterly hour of drama that I'm tempted to say our patience has been rewarded.
Barrett also works as a screenwriter and filmmaker, so it's no surprise that she's a masterly world-builder.
The baritone Luca Salsi gave a masterly portrayal of the title role, charged with singing of breathless intensity.
Cristina García crafts a masterly novel that deals with political exile through the various viewpoints of one family.
We got so used to elegant, sometimes masterly speechifying, that I will admit I sometimes tuned it out.
Broom does a masterly job of situating each of her family members as Katrina looms on the horizon.
Broom does a masterly job of situating each of her family members as Katrina looms on the horizon.
Richard Davenport-Hines dissects and destroys that conventional wisdom in his masterly retelling of Britain's most notorious intelligence disaster.
If Mr. Ferro's goal in resisting was to push up Gannett's price, then he is doing a masterly job.
This creates an interesting frisson within an exhibition that is both masterly and radical, traditional in feel yet subversive.
"Injustice, if it is on a large enough scale, is stronger, freer, and more masterly than justice," he argues.
Our reviewer, Mark Levine, praised Robinson's "bold and angular visual style," which features deceptively simple brushwork and masterly compositions.
The only boring thing about "Roma," Alfonso Cuarón's masterly latest, is that it may well end up in contention.
It's a masterly, controlled performance, in which a glance or a change in voice tone colors an entire scene.
On Wednesday, it was Benzema who drew praise from Manager Zinedine Zidane for his masterly assist on Isco's goal.
Garff, the author of a masterly Kierkegaard biography, here narrates the mysterious love affair that shaped the writer's later life.
And in the meantime, marvel at the rest of this masterly episode, which takes place outside the Extreme Sandbox's confines.
Yet he's such a masterly writer of prose and provocative thinker of thoughts that even his lesser novels leave marks.
They're meaningful, even masterly additions to the repertory, giving the company something to sink its physical and emotional weight into.
I've been reading and rereading Romney's moving and masterly Senate floor speech on Wednesday, in which he explained his vote.
This fashionable event provides one of many vignettes etched in masterly detail by Orlando Figes, a British historian, in "The Europeans".
Dysalexic Most cartoons that try to blend adolescent humor with existentialism are ridiculously dumb but Rick & Morty does it masterly well.
The production, directed by Leigh Silverman, is just as masterly, playing quietly on the theme of making much out of little.
And their masterly and unexpected delivery of Kleist's florid and archaic verse can make the poetic language sound fragile and hesitant.
Few of those images will endure like these masterly paintings, which dissect and reproduce the effects of photographic light and vision.
With masterly understatement, The Times of London commented that 'the last settlement of the century has certainly terminated in a deplorable manner.
Hendricks had not lasted more than five and a third innings in four previous playoff starts, but he was masterly Saturday night.
Masterly but gleeful technicians, fleet in dynamics and changes of direction, these two — with the same dark-glinting eyes — are kindred spirits.
For Mr. Kim, it was North Korea's de facto legitimization on the international stage, a masterly propaganda coup for his isolated state.
De La Soul's masterly début album, "3 Feet High and Rising" (1989), imbued hip-hop's sample-based aesthetic with a cheeky intentionality.
The dwarfing metallic walls are the color of money — shades of copper and silver and gold, according to Jon Clark's masterly lighting.
His approach -- that he alone with his supposedly masterly negotiating skills can unpick the world's most intractable diplomatic dispute -- now looks exposed.
Audiences struggled to separate the masterly, inventive playing from the fact that Alexander, who is self-taught, had barely started middle school.
Each writer, he wrote in 1973, especially each poet, was engaged in an Oedipal agon, or struggle, against the influence of masterly precursors.
As Salinger, the formidable Chris Cooper has a brief but masterly turn, sympathetically rendering the writer as a curmudgeon defending his literary offspring.
"Massimo's haute jewelry represents a constant dialogue between masterly techniques, outstanding execution and knowledge of the Mediterranean past," he said in an email.
Robert Wise's masterly 1963 movie "The Haunting" rested on the idea that no ghost is as terrifying as the anticipation of its arrival.
But she is masterly when she lets more scraped-down prose push a series of elemental questions to the fore: Do intentions matter?
Colors, textures, stances and expressions play off one another not only within individual photos but also among them in the collection's masterly sequencing.
He puts samples by the Alan Parsons Project, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, the Clark Sisters and Hannah Williams & the Affirmations to masterly use.
Sale (20-23) was masterly, striking out 21, the 30th time this season he has had at least 40.280 strikeouts in a game.
In his masterly retelling, Mr Wilson paints a more nuanced picture of the empire as a stable and unique entity that protected the weak.
As in his recent masterly reimagining of another Miller classic, "A View From the Bridge," Mr. van Hove is aiming for a scalding transparency.
Mr. Trump has shown himself to be a masterly communicator, and his instincts, especially in identifying the issues that will animate voters, are shrewd.
Patchett wisely underplays the drama — the chapter is a masterly example of showing rather than telling — and the increasingly shocking details speak for themselves.
At least, if Michael W. Ferro Jr., the chairman, is just trying to push up Gannett's bid price, he is doing a masterly job.
Not since Mao dominated the nation with his masterly blend of populism, fervor and fear has a Chinese leader commanded so much public awe.
But this poem is a masterly picture book text: Its precisely chosen words create a world you have to listen to, to think about.
"Richard II" was an astonishment, though — partly because of Ms. O'Connor's masterly ability to hold a room spellbound, and partly because of the script.
Maren is masterly at describing America's modern wastelands, the blasted towns not yet and maybe never-to-be the beneficiaries of rehabilitation and reoccupation.
For 27 years, he's been one of jazz's most relied-upon sidemen, all while releasing a string of masterly albums with his own combos.
" It has often been said that to pay attention is the greatest act of love, and Ford has paid masterly attention in "Between Them.
Mr. Taborn, a masterly pianist, is celebrating this month's release of "Daylight Ghosts," his third album on ECM and his first with a quartet.
Mr. Churkin, a former child actor who had starred in three films, two of them biopics about Lenin, was widely considered a masterly diplomat.
They exhibit masterly ease in the style they call West Coast urban dance, with the quick precision to register a pop song's every beat.
Seeing him with a ball at his feet, the quiet, skinny 0003-year-old's every effortless touch proof of his masterly control, was enough.
Hollinghurst writes long, absorbing, much-peopled novels that display a masterly grasp of psychological processes and a prickling awareness of minute betrayals and inarticulate desires.
The show's masterly first 20 minutes, for instance, have been significantly rejiggered since Denver, and show Mr. Grandage getting the back story squared away swiftly.
Jazz Mr. Taborn, a masterly pianist, is celebrating this month's release of "Daylight Ghosts," his third album on ECM and his first with a quartet.
Though Richardson went on to write two more novels—including the masterly "Clarissa"—he has long inspired an unusually intense mix of appreciation and irritation.
The very littlest ones might even look over the shoulder of an older sister or brother and be seduced by the glossy and masterly illustrations.
Women flung themselves at him, of course, and in his masterly way he could dispense with any billing and cooing, going straight for "the thing" itself.
Alongside the masterly pork pie, you can find a $5 sandwich of pickled daikon and cucumber sticks inside a grilled and buttered Martin's hot dog roll.
He can move from subtle shading and tonal shifts to tiny squiggles and scribbles in the blink of an eye, from masterly draftsmanship to the cartoony.
One catalyzing moment: finding original "Krazy Kat" strips, by the masterly George Herriman, being used to plug a leak in a ceiling at a newspaper syndicate.
Its strongest chapters — on 'A Raisin in the Sun' and Lorraine's coming into her own as a public intellectual — are masterly syntheses of research and analysis.
Its strongest chapters — on "A Raisin in the Sun" and Lorraine's coming into her own as a public intellectual — are masterly syntheses of research and analysis.
" I thought of this as I finished the last book in Rachel Cusk's masterly trilogy, which began with "Outline" and continued with "Transit" and now "Kudos.
Over 170 years later, the Obama administration followed a policy of inactivity in Central Asia, although few would call President Obama's handling of foreign policy masterly.
Neither blame nor absolution entices him as, again and again (eased by Colin Rich's masterly editing), he coaxes forth the perfect, shining moment that speaks volumes.
The screenplay doesn't cover nearly enough of Steinbeck's rich magnum opus, but what Mr. Kazan lacked in character development he made up for in masterly filmmaking.
This village scene is at once realistic and wacky, and like many of Rauch's masterly paintings it seems mobile in time, mixing references that span centuries.
Hand — whose masterly oeuvre ranges from the eerie to the horrific, postpunk to magic — delivers another brilliant mystery set in Chicago's louche Riverview Amusement Park in 1915.
In keeping with its title, the masterly final novel by Drndić, who died last year, suggests a brain scan of its narrator, a dying author and psychologist.
The result is "Blood in the Water," a masterly account of the Attica prison uprising, its aftermath and the decades-long legal battles for justice and accountability.
Like his Aggies predecessor Johnny Manziel, who memorably beat the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa in 2012 en route to the Heisman Trophy, Knight is a masterly improviser.
His body of work stands out for his inventive subversion of literary genres, his acute sense of place and his masterly parsing of the British class system.
The doubling, though often masterly (I'd swear Ms. Serralles's pants fit her differently as Daniela than as Lon), makes it harder to pin down any one character.
Our reviewer, Daniel Menaker, praised the novel's "emotional intelligence and complexity" and "certain set pieces that show a masterly sense of timing and structure and deep feeling."
Given that New Haven is the home of Yale, its museums hold not only masterly works of art, but erudite vestiges of history and science, as well.
In many ways, "Chaos" acts as the perfect encapsulation of the series itself: brazenly political and masterly at suspense, but sometimes ambitious in all the wrong ways.
In another movie dealing with mortality, Mr. Pitt turned in a masterly performance in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" — a David Fincher film about de-aging.
But "Charlie Parker's Yardbird," given its New York premiere on Friday at the Apollo Theater, evoked none of that masterly saxophonist and composer's wild beauty and mesmerizing focus.
It's a piece of masterly reporting, but it's also a compelling read on a subject that we all need to think about much, much more than we do.
Understanding just how big the problem is, though, is critical, and O'Neil does a masterly job explaining the pervasiveness and risks of the algorithms that regulate our lives.
Solomon Telingater's masterly "The Red Army Is Watching" (1931) makes use of disjunctive scales between an army corps in the background and a single saluting soldier laid atop.
Nathaniel Philbrick demonstrates once again with IN THE HURRICANE'S EYE: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown (Viking, $30) that he is a masterly storyteller.
Demonstrating its masterly balance and flexibility, and yet without seeming to show off, it scratched behind its ear with one foot while standing fully erect on the other.
Besides fresh paint jobs that make its masterly ironwork and carvings shine again, the station has also received a new cafe and now hosts exhibitions as well as tours.
Given over to a masterly singer endowed with an opulent baritone that includes a silky, cellolike high register and penetrating depths, such an exploration of darkness can be cathartic.
A central tension in the field, one that muddies the timeline, is how "the Singularity"—the point when technology becomes so masterly it takes over for good—will arrive.
The writing is often masterly, and contains vivid details: a cruelly slow-motion police chase, the care with which Vladimir's family tends his injuries; Sadie's silver spray-painted sneakers.
That's the place where the character identified only as the Son, played with a masterly mix of reluctance and compulsion by Peter Friedman, has told us he is headed.
One hopes that with the publication of his masterly third novel, "Waiting for Eden," Elliot Ackerman will help put to rest the current age of maximalism in American fiction.
While the first half of the book is enjoyable, the second half is masterly, rising to a crescendo that is as rousing as, well, a particularly inspiring campaign speech.
Chris Sale, the Red Sox' ace, turned in a masterly performance, striking out 13 and allowing only three hits and walking two in seven and two-thirds shutout innings.
This taut, masterly portrait of Bellevue Hospital operates much as that fabled institution has since its founding, in 1736: the entire history of New York seems to pass through.
It's masterly and unpretentious, full of original compositions driven by powerful rhythm rather than by structural complexity, and always propelled along by the springy locomotion of this expert drummer.
In the view of one senior executive, it all came down to masterly salesmanship by a single man, Anshu Jain, the chief promoter of the bank's hottest product: risk.
NO. 7: KURT SANDERLING, STUTTGART RADIO SYMPHONY (Hänssler Classic) Dark and foreboding at times, heaven-storming at others, this is a masterly, often overlooked Seventh, both unusual and convincing.
Nope. The secret — or method, in magic-speak — behind a trick is normally quite simple, but it's the magician's performative flair and masterly execution that makes it come to life.
Goetzmann's masterly overview itself provides many examples of ingenious financial innovations that have notably not succeeded in changing human behavior, despite being better technical solutions to the problems at hand.
Only Father Douglas (Martin Sheen, performing in Spanish with masterly assurance) believes in a better future, but his efforts to encourage the locals to replenish the population have been fruitless.
Six years after their previous operatic collaboration, the masterly "Written on Skin," Mr. Benjamin and Mr. Crimp have again dared to challenge audiences by remaining true to their uncompromising visions.
He's a masterly writer, with a wild sense of humor that he pushes as far as he can, but this fairy tale about our wealth-obsessed culture starts to drag.
In this masterly novel, Enright, the 2007 Man Booker winner, writes as expertly about the AIDS crisis in New York and humanitarian work in Mali as she does about Ireland.
Kollwitz is the more appealing, with a style of masterly touch and tender pathos, notably in delicately shaded images of mothers and children indomitably bonded in poverty or facing unspecified threats.
His control over the volume of his voice is precise, and his jazzlike sense of rhythm when it comes to punctuating a barb with a certain four-letter word remains masterly.
Outrageous luxury is only one element in Koons's masterly fusion of Pop content and minimalist aesthetics, which prophesied and still authorizes the cultural aplomb of our reconstituted, remorselessly ongoing gilded age.
For starters, there's that antediluvian laptop, which belongs to Olivia and unnerves the cyber-trendy Ethan, giving Mr. Ball an opportunity to display his masterly way with a comic double take.
Ormsbee does a masterly job of juggling perspectives, keeping all the children distinct and fascinating in their own ways, while never losing the page-whipping pace of her well-crafted plot.
According to Morgan's Law, Rick Atkinson has been doing first-rate journalism, enjoying critical and commercial success for three masterly books on World War II, all thoroughly researched and splendidly written.
" But Purdum shines when demonstrating Hammerstein's "masterly skills as an adapter and editor" — his understanding of structure and character are on ample display in the chapters detailing the births of "Oklahoma!
Romulus and Remus aren't the only fictional characters to have been raised by wolves: Meet Princess Mononoke, the fierce warrior maiden in this film by the masterly Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki.
This enigmatic producer has been keeping the flickering flame of Detroit techno alive for more than a decade, as both a masterly mixer and the leader of the label FXHE Records.
Propelled by an ebullient, masterly improvising style, Sean Jones stepped into the jazz spotlight 2718 years ago when he took the first-trumpet chair in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
This is perhaps the most elegiac, memorable part of the book — a piece of sustained reportage that ranks alongside "From Beirut to Jerusalem," Friedman's masterly first book about the Middle East.
" Ackroyd is a novelist himself, with door-stopping and award-winning biographies of writers like Dickens and T.S. Eliot on his shelf, not to mention the masterly 800-page "London: The Biography.
The masterly feature debut of the Venezuelan filmmaker Lorenzo Vigas, the movie looks at the world through the icy stare of Armando, who is first seen cruising and picking out his prey.
With "The Juniper Tree," he passed on a literary masterpiece of gory fantasy, level and cool and laconic, structured with musical repetition and told with a masterly deadpan command of the horrible.
Few pleasures could equal the spectacle of this masterly musician playing all six of Bach's suites for solo cello in a space where the composer worked, St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, Germany.
Pamuk has a masterly control of mood in this section of the novel, and its sometimes stilted language seems apt for his half-formed, often arrogant, intellectually and sexually curious young narrator.
Flipping through Clifton's "Collected" is an American journey where the multitudinous concerns of this American life are given space to breathe in a way that is as masterly as it is singular.
That there would be some disconnect between the two masterly, middle-aged European artists who conceived the project and the young white, black and brown American performers who were enacting their ideas.
They set the stage for a decade of startling, vivid, wildly original, and masterly paintings of people doing weird things—using blood from a live shark to cure the plague, for example.
Backed by the veteran Czech conductor Jiri Belohlavek, Mr. Paik gave a masterly account of this familiar work, playing with unusually warm and penetrating sound, and dispensing fleet passagework with articulate grace.
My pound-for-pound favorite was Arslan Magomedov, a middleweight with movie star good looks, who would always command the center of the ring and pick off opponents with masterly punches and kicks.
Twitter is full of sycophantic pundits who see each of Trump's gaffes as a masterly move in a game of 4-D chess, but Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, and Jones aren't among them.
Delacroix, the masterly translator of Rubens, and still learning as he neared 60, comes roaring back with fireworks in piled-up battles of men and beasts, fur and blood, violent reds and oranges.
"Black and White Sky," by the masterly Tanith Lee, is a brilliant story of an island-wide attack of magpies that cuts off England, Scotland and Wales from the rest of the world.
Alice Munro's masterly story ''The Bear Came Over the Mountain'' tells of a woman who develops the symptoms of Alzheimer's and, at a residential-care facility, has an affair with another such patient.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC GREATEST LANDSCAPES: Stunning Photographs That Inspire and Astonish (National Geographic, $245) lives up to its billing by taking us around the world, through four seasons, in the company of masterly photographers.
From the opening aerial shots of a thoroughly denatured agricultural landscape and the lethal confrontation that follows, we know we are in the presence of a masterly visual tactician and a shrewd storyteller.
A masterly literary page-turner that captures the paranoia of the end of the Vietnam era as hippiedom and the summer of love deteriorated into hard drugs, sleaze and corruption on the home front.
The novel's lean, tactile prose and Simenon's masterly rendering of setting and atmosphere (the island's 'white and pink houses among the palm trees, the mimosas and the tamarisks') obscure your cardio exertion from yourself.
" Colorful writing: (On starting pitchers Sherry Smith and Babe Ruth, who each threw complete games) "Foot to foot through fourteen grueling innings they struggled, each averting many times by calm, masterly work threatening downfall.
It's too bad her masterly performance, and Christopher Allen's responsive piano collaboration, is saddled with the rest of "Ne Quittez Pas," the director James Darrah's strained attempt at giving this classic work some context.
The night was especially disappointing for fans of "The Irishman", Martin Scorsese's masterly three-and-a-half-hour return to the mob genre, and "Marriage Story", Noah Baumbach's forensic examination of a rancorous divorce.
Augusto Pinochet's overthrow of the government in 1973; and "No," his best-known film, was about an advertising executive's masterly and oddly joyful campaign to defeat Pinochet in the 1988 referendum on his presidency.
As directed with masterly force and delicacy by David Cromer, with a matching performance by Reed Birney in the title role, this beautiful drama of lost faith occurs amid a darkness that swallows language.
In Clarke's masterly film, which features footage of Coleman in 1968 and again in 1983, he explains the thinking behind harmolodics — the enigmatic term he coined to signify a utopic vision of music-making.
They displayed masterly puck management, well-executed line changes and a forecheck that kept the Oilers on their heels as Anaheim rebounded from a 7-1 Game 6 loss that set dubious franchise records.
For all that, the novel as a whole supersedes its difficulties — especially in its emotional intelligence and complexity, and in certain set pieces that show a masterly sense of timing and structure and deep feeling.
Instead, I saw "Collective," a harrowing, masterly Romanian documentary about a national disaster, as well as "State Funeral," a found-footage documentary about the terrifying pageant that the Soviet Union put on after Stalin's death.
Greenwell's masterly debut novel sketches out in fine detail the destabilizing experience of gay shame, both in rural Kentucky, where the central character grew up, and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Scene Delete, his first since 2002's masterly Airdrawndagger, was a melodic, downtempo record that echoed his love for the ambient music made by acts like KLF and The Orb at the height of his stardom.
The masterly story, which closely resembles the real-life case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, "enters the mind of a megalomaniac who conflates his own ruin with that of the European economy," Andrew Sean Greer said here.
You might call the strategy masterly if it were not also maleficent, if the future of the country were not on the line, and if this country's standing in the world were not on the line.
The influence of the masterly Kerry James Marshall—Taylor's contemporary and fellow L.A. painter—is many times explicitly quoted, with something of the same guilelessness and love with which Taylor opens his doors to his neighbors.
Brown has taken the so-called "boring stuff" of history, combined it with masterly graphic composition and sensitive drawings and created something wonderful — a story that not only pulls us in, but pulls at our heartstrings.
And in "King Zulu," a masterly painting inspired by the history of early jazz that occupies a prominent place at the Barbican, Basquiat summoned the memory of the trumpeters Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson and Howard McGhee.
Widely admired for his sensitive musicianship, masterly tonal control and impeccable diction in a spate of European languages, Mr. Gedda possessed a lyric tenor voice that shimmered like silver but was no less warm for that.
One masterly tableau describes the meeting room on the ground floor of 3 Savile Row, Apple's Georgian townhouse, where stood a large, gold-lined oak table and four expensive "unmatched" armchairs, never used as they were intended.
Gallant wrote a masterly story that embodies a certain time, place, and perspective; Shepard, who discovered it decades later, found a way to bring it to life again, putting the same human frailties into a different context.
The work of Italian artists, including the architect Sebastiano Serlio and the master woodcarver Francesco Scibec da Carpi, the Galerie François I combines masterly frescoes, life-size stucco figures, elaborate wainscoting, delicate painting and gold leaf detailing.
That's the silence — a beautiful hush of dread and wonder — that envelops "The Sound Inside," Adam Rapp's astonishing new play now receiving its world premiere, under the masterly direction of David Cromer, at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
All at once I saw an old man without qualities," reads one of Lahiri's masterly translations, as she nails the inward, neurotic tone of Starnone's source and spears an allusion to Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities.
The instrument's masters — and the performances were uniformly masterly — were just as diverse, with singers from Brazil and Mexico, an early-music chorus from Spain, and Malian vocalists weaving their voices together into a scintillating musical tapestry.
Mr. Taylor's choreography, masterly in the changing group geometries of its outer movements, takes its dramatic, formal intensity from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Prelude in E flat minor, as orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski.
This problem continues in the second season, which, in its first two episodes, alternates between sequences of masterly beauty—including two memorable acts of digital terrorism—and one too many deep talks between Elliott and his friends.
"It's enlightening to watch some of our most masterly literary portraitists restore the warts and wardrobes, the motivations and machinations to those whose stories have been stripped down to surnames or pseudonyms," Monica Youn writes in her review.
Like the grandiose figure he writes about in his masterly central section, Knausgaard, too, is always telling you about his feelings and how profound they are, his weeping, his lusts, his ambitions, his insecurities, his frustrations and regrets.
"Margonelli's masterly book is a timely, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be human, as much as what it means to be termite, and a penetrating look at the moral challenges of our ongoing technological revolution."
John Foord, The Times's editor-in-chief (a role that was equivalent to that of the editorial page editor today), took exception — not to Senator Miller's "masterly statement," but to Senator Hoar's "unfortunate" attempt to liken the races.
A primer on corpus linguistics and a short explanation of how our language evolved from Old English help complete Crystal's masterly telling of why a living language's grammar, like its vocabulary, is not only unfinished, it is unfinishable.
Forman, a Yale Law School professor and former Washington, D.C., public defender, has written a masterly account of how a generation of black elected officials wrestled with recurring crises of violence and drug use in the nation's capital.
In the end, "The Third Rainbow Girl" is not just a masterly examination of a brutal unsolved crime, which leads us through many surprising twists and turns and a final revelation about who the real killer might be.
"I suppose a foreign affaire de coeur would have been the best thing of all; and that, in a way, was what I got," he observes in the beguiling "Footsteps," his masterly mash-up of memoir and biography.
Berg's 1978 biography, "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius," was a masterly look at a reticent Yankee who buried himself in manuscripts, wore a fedora everywhere, and deplored innovations—even as he discovered and published Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wolfe.
All around her, Club members can easily remember the masterly forgery she presented during last year's gala: Her analog photographs were exact copies of the digital shots of Richard Prince, who had, in turn, repurposed images found on Instagram.
The Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild spent five years listening to Tea Party supporters in Louisiana, and in her masterly book " Strangers in Their Own Land " she identifies what she calls the deep story that they lived and felt.
Mr. Andrews has done a masterly job of arranging the play's central antagonists, so as the set revolves, we're always aware of their positions in relation to one another, as they take stock of their respective strengths and weaknesses.
Ms. Mitchell, a masterly flutist and composer, is the exact kind of musician you want for a Stone residency: always bursting with recent projects and fresh ideas for new ones, and keyed into a broad, diverse network of friends.
Featuring masterly performances by Anthony Perkins (whose closeted homosexuality gives the film a rich retrospective subtext), Jeanne Moreau and Welles himself, "The Trial" is one of Welles's more underrated works but also one of his most nightmarish and inventive.
Walbert is a masterly and rich purveyor of female characters, having conveyed the breadth and ambition of women's dreams and desires in "A Short History of Women" (2009) and the resilience of two widows in "The Sunken Cathedral" (2015).
He's also an educator and a scholar, with a masterly understanding of the dance forms that funk music inspired in the early 1970s — especially the popping and locking that hip-hop experts like him often categorize as funk styles.
What united her output was a cool, elegant style that was haunting in its pared-down economy; minute observation; masterly control of tone and pacing; and an abiding concern with dissolution — of family, of home, of health, of trust.
But there are many more compelling reasons to see it, including some truly masterly works on paper and a more holistic, down-to-earth look at an artist best known for his whimsically erotic, decidedly upper-class cabinet paintings.
Federer did a masterly job on Friday of keeping Berdych off balance and on the run: carving acute angles with his groundstrokes and serves, varying topspin and slice and launching surprise attacks on the net from unexpected court positions.
Sapolsky, a neurologist and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, offers a masterly cross-disciplinary scientific study of human behavior: What in our glands, our genes, our childhoods explains our species' capacity for both altruism and brutality?
Antonio Banderas, "Pain and Glory": Critics' groups in both New York and Los Angeles named Banderas their best-actor winner for his masterly portrayal of a variation on his director, Pedro Almodóvar, in this quiet gem of a drama.
The book "is not just a masterly examination of a brutal unsolved crime, which leads us through many surprising twists and turns and a final revelation about who the real killer might be," Melissa Del Bosque writes in her review.
So how to explain someone like Sam Shepard, who was both a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Oscar-nominated actor -- not to mention a novelist and short story writer -- in an age unaccustomed to such masterly jack-of-all-tradesmanship?
But he has also called himself a "descriptive prescriber", and this is clearer than ever before in the fourth edition of his masterly usage dictionary, "Garner's Modern English Usage", and a new book, "The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation".
Graeme Macrae Burnet makes such masterly use of the narrative form that the horrifying tale he tells in HIS BLOODY PROJECT (Skyhorse, $24.99), a finalist for this year's Man Booker Prize, seems plucked straight out of Scotland's sanguinary historical archives.
The collective double take over "Star Wars" never gets old, although if it's a definitive reconstruction of the creative spaghetti that fed into the saga you want, then Chris Taylor's masterly "How Star Wars Conquered the Universe" is your book.
Our reviewer, who called Goodwin's book "masterly," also wrote: "'The Second Mark' can be classed among the rare sportswriting that, with one eye fixed on court or field or rink, manages to tell us something important about the human spirit."
Lisa Halliday's masterly first novel plays out in these spaces — in the gulf between two story strands that never intersect: a May-December romance between a young woman and an older writer, and an Iraqi-American economist detained at an airport.
By James Forman Jr. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.) A masterly account of how a generation of black elected officials wrestled with crises of violence and drug use by unleashing the brutal power of the criminal justice system on their constituents.
He won his third gold medal in four trips to the Olympics with a masterly final run that earned him 27 points and a narrow victory over the Japanese teenager Ayumu Hirano, who had posted a 2000 on his second run.
There is a feminist and revisionist aspect to the series, which intends to rescue Catherine from the more extreme fabrications about her carnality while still celebrating the sexual boldness that accompanied her (relatively) enlightened attitudes and masterly exercise of power.
Perhaps a more comforting vision of this other country where my mother now resides is found in Hirokazu Kore-eda's masterly film "After Life," whose great conceit is that the newly dead must pass through a halfway house run by angels.
The journey of van der Helst's work is emblematic of a period in Dutch history when a cold cynicism toward Holocaust survivors meant that thousands of masterly works were rescued from the Nazis only to end up as Dutch national property.
Weaving his grandfather's stories into accounts of his own visits to sites that shaped the old man's development as a husband and father as well as an artist, Hertmans has produced a masterly book about memory, art, love and war.
But viewers willing to take part in Mariano Llinás's venture will be rewarded with a rich and transgressive take on the mythologies we build around movies, bolstered by the masterly performances of Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, and Laura Paredes.
In 19th-century Russia, to be sentenced to penal labour in the prisons, factories and mines of Siberia was a "pronouncement of absolute annihilation", writes Daniel Beer in his masterly new history of the tsarist exile system, "The House of the Dead".
But it wasn't until just before the First World War, when he and Nora and their children, Giorgio and Lucia, were at the end of a short stay in Rome, that Joyce's masterly story, which he started writing in 1907, was published.
Larson, a masterly author of nonfiction narratives, pulled together memoirs, letters and historical documents to reconstruct the vessel's final moments, in an account that also examines the internecine politics surrounding the ship's voyage, from New York to Liverpool, and its tragic fate.
The English organist James McVinnie conquered the daredevil solo part, and the ever more masterly Salonen—who, earlier in the month, led the L.A. Phil in what seemed to me a definitive rendition of Sibelius's elusive Sixth Symphony—gave shape to the chaos.
Mr. Smith, a longtime academic and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, made a name for himself in part with masterly biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ulysses S. Grant, offering historical reassessments of underrated presidents who looked better with the passage of time.
And it was, unquestionably, Foles, who flummoxed the Vikings with passes long and short — even a flea-flicker touchdown to Torrey Smith — and rewarded the steadfast faith and masterly play-calling of Coach Doug Pederson to continue leading Philadelphia down a familiar path.
Mr. Harvey became a masterly sculptor of intricately detailed, realistic bronze figures whose works were exhibited by Tiffany & Company in its Fifth Avenue flagship store, have been collected by museums, and were purchased by Henry Fonda, Jamie Wyeth, Barry Manilow and Danielle Steel.
William Taubman, a professor emeritus at Amherst College, grapples with this dichotomy in his masterly new biography, "Gorbachev: His Life and Times," which will surely stand as the definitive English-language chronicle of this most intriguing figure for many years to come.
THE MODEL APARTMENT (1995) by Donald Margulies An enormously powerful work that only gradually reveals its hand, this masterly play segues from a classic comedy of Jewish neurosis into a harrowing assessment of the long-term reverberations of a barbaric chapter in history.
This year, readers interested in the history of India have rightly turned to the masterly "The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire," William Dalrymple's account of the British East India Company's behavior in the colonial era.
As its title suggests, there is a dazed, dreamlike quality to the prose of this bildungsroman, in which a masterly English translation by Jeffrey M. Green manages to retain the direct, concrete quality of the original Hebrew as well as its austere poetry.
In designing the page, father and son worked in masterly counterpoint, the text sections and images sliding gracefully past one another in time, interrupted only by the "gutters," those white spaces between panels where the reader's imagination took over, advancing the story.
"The Fall Guy" reads like early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith, and while often novelists who write as finely as he does seem to feel above what Jonathan Franzen once called the "stoop work" of narrative, Lasdun is masterly in his story's construction.
Dougherty has covered this quagmire extensively for The New York Times, and "Golden Gates" is both an empathetic portrait of all sides — legislators, developers, pro-housing and anti-gentrification activists — as well as a masterly primer on the fight for new construction in California.
" And it's one that collides two masterly, if hugely dissimilar actors — Mr. Driver, 35, who brings a Method hyperintensity to every project, even the brash traumedy "Girls," and Ms. Russell, 42, a former teen star who perfected steely interiority on the espionage drama "The Americans.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — The key to Paul Klee's wonderfully shaped energy is not ironic detachment, as the title of the Centre Pompidou's current retrospective suggests, but rather the playful and idyllic emotion he transmits through masterly line and dusty color.
But with her masterly dramaturgy, and her ability to draw characters whose complex humanity brings us into sympathetic intimacy with their plight, Ms. Nottage's play, like Mr. Karam's, puts a recognizable human face on problems that are often debated in the political sphere merely in the abstract.
Obama has long made a habit of outlining a broad approach of masterly inactivity in Syria and then hedging against his own strategy Thus, for example, in September 2015 we learned that the US train-and-equip program had only trained a handful of Syrian rebels.
It hired the first woman to coach its women's national team, encouraged individualism in its style of play, started a youth movement and largely dismantled a veteran team of masterly technical skill that won the 23 World Cup in a penalty shootout over the United States.
With a special holographic fabric developed in China that looked like oily black nylon when viewed with the naked eye, but turned iridescent in the light of a smartphone flash, Mr. Galliano layered references and eras in a masterly meditation on the sartorial net of things.
In one of her first acts running the estate, Ms. Owens made a deal to allow the release of "Amazing Grace," the long-delayed documentary of Ms. Franklin singing gospel at a Los Angeles church in 1972, which has been hailed by critics as a masterly performance.
Nevertheless, for readers who relish the disturbing material of fairy tale, the specificity and surprise of tanka, collisions of the everyday with the supernatural and glimpses of Japan right on the brink of industrialization, this English volume of Kenji Miyazawa's odd, masterly stories will be a delight.
The site-specific production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's masterly and macabre musical, at the Barrow Street Theater, directed by Bill Buckhurst and much feted in its original London incarnation, places the audience in the very midst of the Victorian-era pie shop run by Mrs.
Brian De Palma's masterly conspiracy thriller — starring John Travolta as a sound technician in search of the perfect scream, Nancy Allen as a makeup artist who lures important types into sexually compromising positions, and John Lithgow as the resident villain — joins the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck.
"They say it's called harra bi isbaou because the peasants who invented it couldn't wait for it to cool down to eat it, so they burned their fingers," said Umm Ali, a masterly home cook from the Aleppo suburbs who fled to Beirut with her family in 2013.
In fact, Carl Jung himself reportedly also loved the White Queen's line about a poor memory working only backward, though Vásquez maybe overplays it here; by the quote's third or fourth appearance in the novel, it starts to feel like shorthand, a small slip in a masterly book.
Buell Neidlinger, a masterly bassist who had a significant role in the establishment of free jazz, took part in the premieres of works by John Cage and Igor Stravinsky and had credits on numerous hit songs and soundtracks, died on March 22 at his home in Whidbey Island, Wash.
Eileen Markey's "A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura" is not an investigation into the killing itself, like Francisco Goldman's "The Art of Political Murder," a masterly book that delved into the web of intrigue and deception surrounding the 1998 homicide of Bishop Juan Gerardi in Guatemala.
The choice of location for the Browne show sharpened a viewer's sense of untenable contrasts: on one hand, a masterly demonstration of audacious skills by a designer obsessed with control and order, and on the other, a feeling that, just outside the Paris Event Center, the center barely holds.
Even if you know and love this masterly movie—the first and last occasion, for Melville, in which a female character takes center stage—seek it out afresh at Film Forum, where eleven minutes of additional footage have been restored, most of it overtly concerned with the ethical agonies of occupation.
This occasionally made for bipolar experiences; I'm still trying to make sense of the Saturday evening program, in which a world-music showcase worthy of a cruise ship was sandwiched between John Zorn's masterly "Jumalattaret" and Grisey's apocalyptic "Quatre Chants pour Franchir le Seuil" ("Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold").
There is an almost obligatory spy denouement and a romance between Krebbs and a Jewish maid, but Judd doesn't push these aspects of the plot in any way that impinges on his characters, among whom there are sufficient ambitions and conflicts to carry his masterly short novel to a satisfying end.
That may seem odd in a sport where there is a winner and a loser, but the masterly battle between winner Stenson, who fired a record-tying 63, and runner-up Mickelson, who shot 65 to finish 11 shots ahead of third place at Royal Troon, set a standard for major golf finishes.
When the novelist P.D. James turned to true crime in "The Maul and the Pear Tree," the masterly book about the 1811 Ratcliffe Highway murders she wrote with the police historian T.A. Critchley, she didn't stop at presenting a lucid and thorough account of a representative crime from the early 19th century.
This masterly director of 22 films, pioneer of the complex crane maneuver, of tracking shots to give any in "Taxi Driver" a breathtaking run for its money: her epic, rebarbative, wildly chaotic, furious, visionary films have earned her a revered place in the international — intergalactic — canon for her work of five decades.
Mastery of words may not result in masterly communication, and a great dictionary, like a love story, is "the result of people puzzling over their choices" — a classic tension that has made "The Great Passage" a prizewinner in Japan, as well as both a successful feature film and an animated television series.
Fleming does a masterly job juggling story lines, from Lindbergh's marriage and flying partnership with Anne Morrow, to the kidnapping of their son and the resulting media circus, to Lindbergh's quest to invent machines that could prolong the "right" sort of human life — a demented vision born of his belief in white supremacy.
But what's even more impressive is the subtle stuff you almost don't notice because Giles wears his intellect so lightly: the masterly knowledge of hip-hop and R&B; the command of technology's uses and abuses; the discerning ear for the way high schoolers talk, both to one another and to grown-ups.
Working from an adaptation by Phyllis Nagy of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel, "The Price of Salt," Mr. Haynes is back in the mannerist mode of another of his period studies of sexual awakening and repression, the crest of which is "Far From Heaven" from 2002, a masterly conflation of film history and feminist tragedy.
The "Dark Tower" series can be traced to Mr. King's love of, among other inspirations, J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" novels as well as Sergio Leone's masterly 1966 film "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," which I suppose explains the duster Roland wears and an empty nod to spaghetti westerns.
This season at Ballet Theater, where he has been the artist in residence since 2009, that mingling of the Russian and American spirit will be on display in heavy rotation with programming that includes his masterly "Shostakovich Trilogy"; "Firebird," the Stravinsky vehicle that put Misty Copeland on the map; and "Seven Sonatas," a subtle, luminous ballet set to Scarlatti.
Radhika JonesEditorial Director, Books LOCKING UP OUR OWN: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman Jr. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.) Forman's first book is a masterly account of how a generation of black elected officials wrestled with crises of violence and drug use by unleashing the brutal power of the criminal justice system on their constituents.
You have seen his masterly use of dramatic gesture if you have walked by the townhouse at 21958 West 21965th Street in Greenwich Village, destroyed by an explosion in 21997 when it was being used by radicals as a bomb factory, and rebuilt with a brick facade that seems to pivot — clearly signaling the disruption of the tranquil row.
Speaking earlier in the week, Williams's coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, said it was unrealistic to expect Williams to hit the tour winning after the birth of her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. She won no titles last year, but reached the final at Wimbledon and the United States Open, losing to opponents whose masterly performances kept her off balance.
" In the first of his three masterly novels about the life of Cicero, Harris' narrator explained that an election is "the most vigorously alive thing there is -- with thousands upon thousands of brains and limbs and eyes and thoughts and desires ... it will wriggle and turn and run off in directions no one ever predicted, sometimes just for the joy of proving the wiseacres wrong.
A generation ago, in his masterly account "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution," Foner detailed why the attempt to rebuild the country on a racially egalitarian footing after the Civil War failed: political factionalism, financial corruption and the vindictive President Andrew Johnson's efforts to subvert reform; an economic depression that triggered "a resurgence of overt racism"; and a campaign of terror against blacks that went unchecked by law enforcement.
"Atlanta" shows that Glover doesn't need to write verses in order to make a profound impact in rap—after all, one of this year's greatest hip-hop success stories has been that of DJ Khaled, a masterly connector of people and a savvy Snapchat user, who made a No. 1 album not by rapping or producing but by assembling his most powerful musician friends for a compilation.
Zen, though apparently an atypically severe sect within Buddhism, came to be the standard-bearer, so much so that "Zen" became an all-purpose modifier in American letters meaning "challengingly counterintuitive"—as in " Zen and the Art of Archery " or the masterly " Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ," where you learn how not to aim your arrow or how to find a spiritual practice in a Harley.
So it would be a foolish prognosticator indeed who assumed that Thursday's House vote for the American Health Care Act, a misbegotten Obamacare quasi-replacement with the favorable ratings of diphtheria and the strong support of almost nobody on the right who cares about health policy, will necessarily be the undoing of the congressional G.O.P. Perhaps House Republicans will be saved by masterly policy-making in the Senate (don't laugh).
On the cover of The New York Times Book Review, the dance critic Francis Mason called the memoir "a masterly, buoyant legacy of her life and her art," adding that "like herself, the book speaks with a lilting sibylline voice to explain not only the hold dance had on her and what she gave it back, but also to tell us about the love of her life and about years of suffering as well as years of glory."
The predigested fact patterns that litigators deem suitable for court consumption are bland fare for a novelist's palate, so it's enlightening to watch some of our most masterly literary portraitists restore the warts and wardrobes, the motivations and machinations to those whose stories have been stripped down to surnames or pseudonyms: Ernesto Miranda, back in the Arizona State Penitentiary, being applauded by his fellow inmates when a television cop reads a suspect his rights; Norma McCorvey, a.k.a.

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