master hand
Example Sentences
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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
One glance and you know no master hand directs .
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
It was a rare thing to meet a cowpuncher who could not turn out biscuits of some degree of edibility, but we had a master hand.
From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis
The master hand of our finest painters might attempt to depict it, but the affair would be a dead failure; and did it succeed, strangers to these climes would pronounce it an unnatural painting.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
