magisterial

Example Sentences

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She immediately comes off as a magisterial diagnostician and adept leader with bold plans to modernize the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital’s emergency care experience.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026

Former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi last year produced a magisterial analysis of Europe’s investment and productivity problems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

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 • Jan. 7, 2025

Compared with Pacino’s outraged and outrageous Cohn, spraying a vulgarian’s spittle across Nichols’ magisterial “Angels,” Strong’s performance is a model of white-knuckle control, swaggering when Cohn exerts his power, wilting when he can’t.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024

Long before President Nixon met his Waterloo over the Watergate burglary, he escaped from another tight spot with a magisterial speech, at the heart of which was a nakedly cheesy pathos appeal.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith