Women's music writer Lucy O'Brien describes the song as "a full-tilt rollercoaster ... a masterly analysis of rejection."

Ian Kershaw said that Hobsbawm's take on the twentieth century, his 1994 book, The Age of Extremes, consisted of "masterly analysis".

Paul Korshin (Pennsylvania) supplies a masterly analysis of Johnson's conversation as recorded by Boswell, sometimes a bit long after the fact.

Your first problem as I recall from my masterly analysis, is that you have nowhere to live except a hotel that's rapidly running out of vases.

Yet it is impossible to read Norman M. Naimark's masterly analysis of the Soviet occupation between the end of the war and the emergence of two German states in 1949 without feeling some sympathy for the East Germans.

Then, in answer to a question from Franchet d'Esperey about the situation of the British Army, he unfolded a map showing the exact positions, marked in blue arrows, of the enemy on his front and gave a masterly analysis of the movements of the German First and Second Armies.

The New York Times called it a "masterly analysis" and thought it perfectly suited for a broad public: "This-thank Heaven-is a brochure for the lazy-minded!"

Kershaw's masterly analysis of German responses to Hitler makes evident how deeply intertwined and mutually reinforcing the man and his audience were.

Dillon's article is a masterly socio-graphic analysis.

"After that masterly analysis, apply your powers of deduction and tell me why Lieutenant Silva failed to transfer him three weeks ago when we arrived around Sanctuary."