She is a confident, masterly executive who knows her business from top to bottom.
Mr Collier, though tending towards the second view, steers a masterly course between the two.
But Spielberg's direction is masterly, making this a breathless thrill-ride from start to finish.
He even receives work from overseas clients who count on his masterly skill to fix old clocks.
Yet for the big picture as well as plenty of little ones, the result is still masterly.
His masterly inaction in domestic affairs allowed the Liberal party to capture the agenda on social reform.
But it is a masterly account of socio-economic conditions in Scotland in the 19th century and raises many unanswered questions.
Mr Holmes is best known for his masterly biographies of Shelley and Coleridge, but many other ghosts have tempted him.
Mr Brands is masterly in describing the patience with which FDR brought the country to understand the danger of fascism.
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Her discussion of the 1798 rebellion is masterly, as is her analysis of the role of the Catholic hierarchy in education.
All that the experts could do was to look out for faults in his forgeries similarities between drawings or passages of less-than-masterly draftsmanship.
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But abandoning any speech verbs is tricky and requires a masterly touch.
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In recent years, Mr Putin like many Russian leaders before him, including Stalin has proved masterly at playing western governments off against each other.
In his timing, Mr Ishihara's return to public life has been masterly.
Firth thanked the team behind the film, including a reference to his "masterly voice coach Neil Swain" while accepting his Leading Actor Award.
To whom, you want to ask, does the title rightfully cling: to the head of the Cause, or to the masterly director himself?
Mr. Atkinson's account of D-Day is both masterly and lyrical, commencing with the story of the three Allied airborne divisions that secured the flanks.
Altman directs an enormous cast with lightness and speed and a masterly ability to pull the many little pieces of intrigue together into a coherent whole.
Mr Frank does a masterly job of documenting the impact that American bombing, prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, had on Japan's industrial capacity and civilian morale.
But Helms' committee still approves State Department nominees and treaties, a power he has used in a masterly way to become a de facto Foreign Minister.
But I do have to admire the masterly manner in which Google has comprehensively outsmarted the French over this newspapers and Google search results thing.
The director plays that concept for raucous farce and rippling horror, and with his masterly editor, Freeman Davies, pulls off kinetic strokes in the midst of squalor.
Defenders of the Treasury's new role argue that it forms part of a much needed revamp of government, and represents a masterly mix of centralisation and decentralisation.
The mystery at the core of his gorgeous performance, which is enhanced by Mr. Kushner's script, has to do with his masterly grasp of Lincoln's quicksilver spirit.
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He called The Sea, about a man who confronts his past in a town where he spent a childhood holiday, "a masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected".
But everybody agrees that he has been masterly in the way he has manoeuvred the ship of Italian politics out of the great corruption scandal of the early 1990s.
The unstageability that has so often deterred directors in the past was overcome by a masterly use of light and shadow on a stage which was kept almost completely bare.
In a masterly introduction, Mr Rose suggests that recent developments in cultural and critical theory have obscured, or more accurately ignored, the experience of working-class audiences of books, plays and paintings.
At the same time, the new technology or the existing technology that's been used to new effect by a masterly technician who's also a formidable artist may be a game-changer in its own right.
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Even major films occasionally dot the lineup like the deliciously sadistic "Gaslight" (1944), for which Ingrid Bergman won her first Oscar, or Erich von Stroheim's masterly silent version of "The Merry Widow" (1925), starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert.
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