magisterial

Example Sentences

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It’s a magisterial ode to Americana, zeroing in on our foundational constitutional saga.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

“Sunday,” the culminating hymn of “Sunday in the Park With George,” closes Act 1 to magisterial effect.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025

He wrote in an autobiography that his first "war decoration" was a "magisterial slap" from his mother, when he came home and told her what he had tried to do.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2025

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

Succinct, yet magisterial, this formula captured the essence of the interactions between heredity, chance, environment, variation, and evolution in determining the form and fate of an organism.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee