The word "magisterial" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that is impressively grand, authoritative, or characterized by mastery or control. For example, "The professor spoke in a magisterial tone that quieted the room."
Merce Cunningham Dance Company Barbican Theatre, EC2, Sat At 89, the magisterial Cunningham is still making dances and the UK premiere of XOVER comes with revivals of recent and classic work.
What a fall there has been, from that magisterial orator who lived for the supremacy of the law to the present incumbent, Chris Grayling: not a lawyer, and not seeming to understand, much less respect, the ideals of justice under the law that his party used to stand for.
The film essentially tells us how their marriage suffers until she, in a magisterial, bark-stripping tirade, finally reminds him of her indispensable role in his success: "I was once your boss!" The device that speeds along the estrangement of the partnership is the movie's weakest invention, a screenwriting project with another writer (Danny Huston), a fool and a hack in Hitch's eyes.
For Volvo, Abbott drew on his experience at Doyle Dane Bernbach, whose magisterial 1960s Volkswagen ads were powered by high-octane irony and anchored by knowing self-deprecation.
As the author of a magisterial three-part biography of Keynes, Mr Skidelsky knows more about him than any other scholar.
Like radio waves, you've just got to tune it in.In a magisterial study, "The American Religion", Harold Bloom maintains that the core of the inchoate American faith is the idea of a "Real Me" that is neither soul nor body, but an aspect of the divinity itself, a "spark of God".
Anton Valukas, the court-appointed examiner into Lehman's bankruptcy, produced a magisterial 2,200-page 2,200-page last year of the bank's systematic failures of risk management andissectionce.
Confronted by such iconic subjects as Mont St Victoire near Cézanne's home in Aix-en-Provence and his magisterial still lifes of apples, they could no longer simply reproduce nature, they had to deconstruct it.
That is the central theme of an enjoyable and exuberantly argued book by a British historian, Tom Holland, who combines sound scholarly credentials with a gift for storytelling on a magisterial scale.
Peter Ackroyd finds it here, there and everywhere.His magisterial study of the theme is at once absorbing and frustrating.
But what at the outset promises to be magisterial and erudite in the end turns out to be merely long-winded and pretentious.
