Damien Hirst

Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.

British Artist

Phil Hellmuth

There are times when success doesn't make sense on a purely mathematical basis. I've played absolutely perfectly before, put in a masterful performance, and then my perfect play evaporated because one guy lost his mind and got lucky. Of course, I've also won that way.

American Celebrity

Andre Dubus III

One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

American Writer

Vidal Sassoon

If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.

British Businessman

Jefferson Han

Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.

American Scientist

Cathy Engelbert

Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become.

American Businesswoman

Rick Wilson

Trump is a masterful con man, he's always trying to squeeze a little more juice out of his marks.

American Author

Chael Sonnen

Ronda's a very basic and straightforward fighter. However, she's a masterful competitor.

American Athlete

Michael Hastings

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

American Politician

Tim LaHaye

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.

American Clergyman

Use 'masterful' to describe someone showing great confidence and skill in their actions.

Confidence Indicator

'Masterful' often implies admiration for someone's talent and high competency.

Positive Connotation

Calling an action 'masterful' subtly praises both the outcome and the person's ability.

Subtle Praise

'Masterful' suggests someone is exercising strong authority or influence over others.

Authority Expression

Emphasizes a person's ability to control a situation with authority and skill.

Control Aspect

Implies excellent leadership skills, often in a work or team environment.

Leadership Qualities

 He decided that his best bet was to pit two families against each other. He first visited the masterful sons of Ivaldi. He told them that their rivals, a pair of brothers named Brokk and Eitri, had claimed that they were the best craftsmen in the world and were determined to prove it in a competition.

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 an abstract celebration of the divine can still be found in arabesque patterns of Islamic textile design, with masterful flourishes of brushwork and Arabic calligraphy, where the words of the prophet assume a dual role as both literature and visual art. Likewise, in art from the early periods

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 and see if your masterful paper engineering ideas translate from a sketch to the actual prototype. Instead of using fancy paper, start with the cheap stuff and allow yourself to make mistakes and adjustments. This prototype lets you see how your preliminary sketches will come to life.

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 and support the local community— along with the axolotl. Eventually, the benefits of saving this salamander might be even greater. Scientists hope that one day we’ll be able to apply the axolotl’s masterful tumor suppression and regenerative abilities to the human body.

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 are thought to help protect cheetahs vision from glare and allow them to see fantastic distances of up to five kilometres this means they can see their prey long before they can be seen themselves the cheetah is a masterful hunter with a 58 percent success rate

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 Consider the mantis shrimp. Like other crustaceans, it molts as it grows, which leaves its soft body vulnerable to attack. But it’s still driven to protect its home against rivals. So it has become a masterful bluffer. Despite being fragile,

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 I learned that what we see is not universal truth. It is not objective reality. What we see is a unique, personal, virtual reality that is masterfully constructed by our brain. Let me explain with a bit of amateur neuroscience.

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 really masterfully? I believe that all humans That the most fundamental aspect of our humanity is that we all have a kind of longing for a state that I call the perfect and beautiful world.

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 Chris Thank you Enric. Enric Thank you. That was a masterful job