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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The eye, unpractised, sometimes lost the current, When some wild rapid of the tide did whirl, While yet a master hand beyond the torrent Freed my frail shallop from the perilous swirl.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
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