Hegi is a masterful writer.
Julia Child, the masterful cooking instructor, author and television personality whose knowledge, exuberance and daft antics lured legions of inexperienced cooks into the kitchen, demystified French cuisine and launched an enduring epicurean craze in America, died early Friday at her apartment in Montecito.
Reflecting the authors' masterful use of archival sources and their magisterial knowledge of the era's complex metropolitan and colonial institutions, this volume is the capstone of a research endeavor spanning nearly sixty years.
The tales are fully as lively as the author's masterful Comédie humaine series, but they stand apart for their good-humoured licentiousness and historical wordplay.
We can laugh at the author's masterful dismantlings of the empirically false reasoning behind homeopathy, ear-candling, "bio-energetic" machinery and the like; but the purveyors of such garbage who persuade seriously sick people not to pursue hospital treatment are, in effect, guilty of killing them.
In its monstrous characters, none more so than Wife Number Three's appalling son by an earlier marriage, and its hilarious, far-fetched plot, there are echoes of Iris Murdoch and the author's masterful use throughout of a Hooray Henryish vernacular reminded me of the deceptively simple narrative style of Kazuo Ishiguro.
Walker writes at a distance--the dread of Julia's day-to-day life is only heightened by the author's masterful control.
During her lifetime there had been a solitary response in any way adequate to the nature of her achievement: Sir Walter Scott's review of Emma in the Quarterly Review for March 1816, where he hailed this "nameless author" as a masterful exponent of "the modern novel" in the new realist tradition.
Yes, there is a lot in the story of studying the sun, and the author does a masterful job of making it a fascinating read.
Wigmore must be heard, as he is the author of a masterful work on the last great crash of 1929, The Crash and Its Aftermath: A History of Securities Markets in the United States, 1929-1933.
Richard Alley, a masterful climate scientist and communicator and author at Pennsylvania State University, is also a Republican with climate concerns.
