magistral

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"If I discover the magistral force, I shall be able to create."

From The Alkahest by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

His descriptions have the magistral ampleness of a gesture indicating the sweep of a vast horizon. 

From Notes on Life and Letters by Conrad, Joseph

Sonata No. 7, Opus 64; Sonata No. 8, Opus 66; Sonata No. 9, Opus 68; and Sonata No. 10, Opus 70; are perhaps the most magistral.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

In itself it can hardly be termed a magistral work, inasmuch as all the theories enunciated in it are, at least, twenty years old, and appear to us to-day quite worn out and decrepit.

From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous

The rhythmic element, already fresh and free in the scherzo of "L'Oiseau de feu" and throughout "Petruchka," attains virile and magistral might in it, surges and thunders with giant vigor.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul