master hand

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One glance and you know no master hand directs .

From Time Magazine Archive

Muriel, for all its flaws, is another absorbing exercise in style by Director Alain Resnais, master hand of the new French cinema.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once, and once only, the master hand that carved her face had let the chisel slip.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

In the meantime, with ample funds to urge it forward, the membership of the organization increased at a rapid enough rate to please even the master hand.

From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph

For the sense of sight is more powerful than that of smell, and the Box might prove a master hand at hinting, but it failed utterly in permanent influence.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse