master hand

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One glance and you know no master hand directs .

From Time Magazine Archive

Muriel, for all its flaws, is another absorbing exercise in style by Director Alain Resnais, master hand of the new French cinema.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once, and once only, the master hand that carved her face had let the chisel slip.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Then from an upper floor came the sound for which Maxwell had been waiting—the first golden notes of a violin played by a master hand.

From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by Taft, William Nelson

The master hand was required, and, under its influence, all such things as vice and being unmanageable disappeared.

From New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. by Baucher, F.