Shirley Jackson had a masterful ability to take quotidian experiences and make them deeply unsettling.
The film not only showcases West's directorial prowess but his masterful ability at choosing musical cues.
The host's and my on-camera "feuding" was lighthearted, and Clark's perfect combination of a quick mind, genial on-camera nature and masterful ability to hit just the right note in banter made him perfect for his job.
Slight in frame but with a strong-arm presence, a staggering spring and a masterful ability to read a game, Cannavaro inspired Italy, who conceded only once to an opposing player all month.
How much of Carmen's popularity is down to Bizet's masterful ability to conjure up picture-postcard images of Spain over and above the dramatic thrust of its story is open to debate.
Self-rationalization curiously parallels the methodical subjection of self to God's will that the old Protestant Ethic counseled; the difference, of course, is that one acquires not moral virtues but a masterful ability to manipulate personae.
Though often infused with violence (which can feel gratuitous), Woodrell consistently displays a masterful ability to create tension, as when a campground owner being terrorized by a local meth head is told by the sheriff, "You probably should've shot him while you could do it legal and get it over with".
In Elizabeth Strout's deeply affecting novel, the eponymous heroine endeavours to make sense of her story in spite of the vagaries of memory, the power of collective denial and the masterful ability of those closest to her to shroud her emotional needs in misunderstandings and repression.
Unfortunately for my husband, he came to depend on my masterful ability.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and with Trump's masterful ability to invoke the mythology of American Providence and exceptionalism, to many he is that last measure.
Many examples of choreographer Jan Kodets' masterful ability to tell a story with her dancers combined itself well with the score, which was full of emotion, and the perfect amount of space to allow the actors to intersect and participate.
