master hand

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Then from an upper floor came the sound for which Maxwell had been waiting—the first golden notes of a violin played by a master hand.

From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by Taft, William Nelson

The article on Novalis, in the "Foreign Review" of 1829, No. 7, presents with a master hand the peculiarities of the new metaphysics that were regenerating the German mind.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks