On the mainstage, heavy rock's nuanced alienation played out in more masterly hands.

This sounds dry but in Haydn's masterly hands the result is totally exhilarating.

He played a masterly hand at poker, and there were few who could touch him at "cut-throat euchre."

He studied nature very closely, and drew picturesque buildings and landscapes with a masterly hand, showing both originality and truth.

Beneath the surface calm, all is turbulence, as fate and the masterly hand of the playwright drive the characters to their shared catastrophe.

Its sketches are usually made by masterly hands, and sometimes with genius; the delight of every class, because uniformly guided by that taste which is tyrannical in England.

Of course, there have always been long, even very long, books and in certain masterly hands these sometimes don't seem long enough.

Write him quickly one of those tender notes that you indite with so masterly a hand.

It is a remarkable story, and in Wood's masterly hands, it is told with enormous insight and unmatched scholarship.

He etched his plates with spirit, and worked over the etching with a firm and masterly hand.