magisterially
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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What made this “Aida” indelible, however, was Anita Rachvelishvili’s magisterially hell-raising performance as Amneris.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018
Rogers’ ballets are so difficult to perform, and his cast was outstanding — holding legs magisterially aloft, balancing like statues and repeating his purposely narrow vocabulary of steps without letting either energy or urgency falter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2018
In these City Ballet performances, the freedom of Robbins’s departures from the details of his music felt like the paintings in which Cézanne leaves parts of the canvas magisterially unpainted, or like Matisse cutouts.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2018
He wrote on India without knowing anything about it, without ever setting foot in it, but as usual, being only too willing to pronounce magisterially on things he couldn’t even begin to understand.
From Slate ● May 14, 2018
As he imparted this melancholy circumstance to Wemmick, Mr. Jaggers standing magisterially before the fire and taking no share in the proceedings, Mike’s eye happened to twinkle with a tear.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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