master hand
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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
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One glance and you know no master hand directs .
From Time Magazine Archive
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Once, and once only, the master hand that carved her face had let the chisel slip.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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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
She never pretended to look upon her staff as anything but a collection of pawns, to be placed or disposed of by a master hand.
From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.