magisterial

Example Sentences

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It’s no surprise that Viktor and Rolf collaborated three times with the magisterial Robert Wilson, who specialized in a theater of images.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

I give her a magisterial stare over the top of my reading glasses.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

It’s been 50 years since the publication of The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s magisterial biography of New York City master builder Robert Moses.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2024

It’s a magisterial work that taught me more about myself than any other book I’ve ever read.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2024

The Olmec, he thought, were the Romans of Mesoamerica, a magisterial society that “established the pattern which, through the centuries, was to be followed by other expansionist Mesoamerican cultures.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann