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

The article on Novalis, in the "Foreign Review" of 1829, No. 7, presents with a master hand the peculiarities of the new metaphysics that were regenerating the German mind.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

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.