magistral

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If he was less accomplished, less resourceful and magistral an artist than Strawinsky, for instance, whom he resembles in a certain general way, he was at least a more human, a more passionate being.

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

Your B-minor sonata, however unsatisfactory its actual quality, remains one of the magistral works of the sort.

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

There was, of course, the element of respect in this gesture—the implication that the magistral chair of Sun Yat-sen was too high a place for any common man to sit.

From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony

In the quartet, his magistral work, the Hebraic element is only one of several.

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

The mercantilism against which the work of Adam Smith was so magistral a protest was already rather a matter of external than internal commerce when he wrote.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph