Sentence examples for a master of small from inspiring English sources

Mr. Redford has always been a magnificent underplayer, a master of small, clear gestures and soft-spoken intensity.

If not exactly a charismatic public speaker, he is a master of small meetings and a fearless trader of facts who has earned praise for deep preparation even from the industries regulated by his department.

She's part of New York but she's not a New York writer; she's accessible but she's nuanced; she's a master of small stories that will change your life, whoever you are, wherever you are, and I tell my students, "that's the way you want to write.

"McNamer is a careful writer, a master of the small, telling observation," Susan Bolotin wrote here last year.

This story and a thousand others are threaded through a book in which Daniel Taylor, a master of the small details in his football journalism, puts us squarely back in the 1970s.

Historical fiction is typically so ample and epilogic that the "historical short story" may seem a contradiction in terms, but Shepard has made himself, in particular, a master of this small, tricky subgenre.

As ever, he was a master of the small gesture -- as well as others with epochal importance.

Floundering in a song-and-dance act, Hope, at an agent's suggestion, became a master of ceremonies for small theaters in Chicago: All the while I was on the stage an usher ran up and down the aisles yelling, "Get your program.... get your program.... you don't know who to blame without a program".

He is a master of detail and of small moves in the service of larger ones.

Daisy Foote is the younger daughter of Horton Foote, who as as a playwright and screenwriter is a proven master of small-town family implosions, and he has directed this play with the quiet confidence of someone who recognizes a story that can tell itself.

In baseball, Beane has become a master of winning on a small budget.