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magisterial

adjective as in authoritative

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“Sunday,” the culminating hymn of “Sunday in the Park With George,” closes Act 1 to magisterial effect.

He wrote in an autobiography that his first "war decoration" was a "magisterial slap" from his mother, when he came home and told her what he had tried to do.

From BBC

Here are five other movies about the magisterial singer-songwriter whose life and lyrics have forever expanded the contours of American music.

I give her a magisterial stare over the top of my reading glasses.

It’s a magisterial work that taught me more about myself than any other book I’ve ever read.

From Salon

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