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.
Her discussion of the 1798 rebellion is masterly, as is her analysis of the role of the Catholic hierarchy in education.
But abandoning any speech verbs is tricky and requires a masterly touch.
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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.
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.
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.
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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" Saving Private Ryan " (DreamWorks ): Whatever reservations one may have about Steven Spielberg's movie as a whole, the first long battle sequence is masterly filmmaking that can be studied in shocking detail on this impeccably produced disk.
Only one new musical of substance opened in New York this year: "Giant, " a masterly stage adaptation by Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson of Edna Ferber's 1952 blockbuster novel, which came to the Public Theater after runs in Arlington, Va.
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This was in the spring of our senior year, and Anne Marie had the misfortune of giving her presentation right after James Nagali, the only other male student at Our Lady of the Lake, who gave a masterly speech on new soap-dispensing technologies.
There may be an irony in Sargent's often taking a backseat to Winslow Homer (1836-1910) as America's most masterly watercolorist, but that may have more to do with the latter's primary focus on American themes as compared with Sargent's expatriate life and subject matter.
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