Sentence examples for masterly direction from inspiring English sources

The Britten Sinfonia, under Adès's masterly direction, played with awe-inspiring finesse.

Vincent undresses her soul, and Higgins, under the masterly direction of Richard Eyre, lets us see the striptease.

"Blackbird," which opened last night at the Manhattan Theater Club under the masterly direction of Joe Mantello, is about a sexual relationship that transforms, cripples and paralyzes.

Under the masterly direction of Bonnie J. Monte, Shakespeare Theater's longtime artistic director, 11 actors expertly play more than 80 separate parts, and even the inanimate objects have motivation.

With "The Country Girl" (revived at the Bernard B. Jacobs, under the masterly direction of Mike Nichols), which was written the following year, Odets was desperate to raise his falling star and produce a bona-fide Broadway hit.

Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica deserves all the praise heaped upon it for its epic study of Sino-American similarities and contrasts as well as for Lyndsey Turner's masterly direction and Es Devlin's exhilarating design.

On the contrary, it seems to melt away even as it's being performed, despite the caressing orchestrations of Jonathan Tunick and masterly music direction by Paul Gemignani.

The review went on to describe the direction as "masterly," citing "its remarkable delineation of character development and the subtle touches which convey ideas through vision rather than the written word, an all too-rare employment of the possibilities of the cinema play as a distinct branch of art capable of truthful and convincing revelation and interpretation of life's realities".

Robert Altman took steps in this direction in his masterly version of "The Long Goodbye" (1973), but he stuck to the outlines of Chandler's story.

He learnt his trade first under the direction of a masterly fresco painter, Domenico Ghirlandaio, known for two great fresco cycles in the Sassetti Chapel and Tornabuoni Chapel, and for his contribution to the cycle of paintings on the walls of the Sistine Chapel.

Joe Mantello is the masterly director (1 30).