Whatever the strategic implications, Harley's move was widely regarded as a masterful stroke of public relations.

Winning him over quickly was a masterful stroke and one he didn't mind a bit.

It was another of her masterful strokes, forcing people to toast him, acknowledge him, accept him.

With one masterful stroke he had disarmed Calbha.

Although somewhat disturbing, it certainly describes the term realism with one bold masterful stroke".

It would be a masterful stroke, he decided.

And, in a masterful stroke of timing, two of the players he singled out for criticism produced goals.

Pompey knew there were many who described his dismissal and restoration of the tribunes as a masterful stroke.

You take a knife and with one masterful stroke you cut out all the old stinking ulcers.

"That was a masterful stroke with the fire gun."