magistral

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His descriptions have the magistral ampleness of a gesture indicating the sweep of a vast horizon. 

From Notes on Life and Letters by Conrad, Joseph

The line of the escarp is called the magistral line since it regulates the trace.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

If he was less accomplished, less resourceful and magistral an artist than Strawinsky, for instance, whom he resembles in a certain general way, he was at least a more human, a more passionate being.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

In itself it can hardly be termed a magistral work, inasmuch as all the theories enunciated in it are, at least, twenty years old, and appear to us to-day quite worn out and decrepit.

From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous

With this his magistral work a new chapter of music commences, the spiritualization of the new body of man is manifest.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul