But as Leider's impressive research and masterful writing shows, off-screen he was full of contradictions. |
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He said a lot of other things that suggested what a masterful politician Bill can be. |
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With masterful technique and an unhinged mad scene, she commanded the first act. |
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It is unquestionably masterful in its mellow execution, but ultimately it's background music for designer shopping. |
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It was a great, masterful performance and was all about the sweet science of boxing. |
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It is a masterful performance spoken in a second language which has clearly improved over the years. |
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But it wasn't just the kids who loved his masterful two-hour solo performance. |
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On one level it was masterful, but it was also riddled with amazing leaps of logic and agonizing moments of drama. |
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In other words, we know nothing about our deft and masterful artist except for his name. |
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She has a masterful command of the language and a manner of speaking that is precise and confident. |
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If I were able to play any instrument with masterful skill and grace it would be the cello. |
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Still, the masterful tone and astonishingly sophisticated writing in this novel redeem a lot of the awkwardness. |
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It's a masterful performance that is easily among his most bare and honest. |
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Technically, it is quite masterful, but is at times distracting in its cleverness. |
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Carroll's performance is masterful and has been deservedly acclaimed by local critics. |
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I loved the first one for its sophisticated camerawork, intricate plot and masterful performances. |
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The effort stands as an excellent example of the masterful execution of a joint special operation. |
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Her masterful brush strokes and use of colour fired up many critics and curators and received immediate recognition. |
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It shows someone who had a masterful command of language that gave the facility to speak and write eloquently. |
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If India's batting was masterful, their bowling in truly testing conditions was even more creditable. |
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He played a masterful grass-court match against Agassi, mixing his acrobatic serve-and-volley game with off-speed shots. |
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Yet for all the masterful handling of the ship by the coxswain it became quite noticeable that we gave a wide berth to the other ship. |
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Even for those scholars with a masterful knowledge of English, the situation is not completely trouble-free. |
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It's a masterful moment that would likely lose most of its impact if not projected in the blackness of a theater. |
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He was masterful and imaginative, but his masterfulness tended to ungenerousness and his imagination to vagary and mischievous exaggeration. |
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Audiard has done a masterful job of creating a brash, nervy film that is poignant without ever being pretentious. |
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He fought a masterful defensive campaign, humiliating the French and Bretons. |
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Indeed, this masterful handling of imagery also furnishes a narrative version of a stereopticon. |
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But as the night wears on and the alcohol from the cash bar starts flowing into my brain, they slowly turn into masterful actors. |
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Watson is a masterful player, a strong singer and an obvious devotee of the blues. |
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The arrogance is masterful as Hicks struts, peacock like, around the stage, posing and displaying his wounded body. |
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As on earlier discs, he enlivens Caribbean traditions with masterful jazz piano, by turns clamorous, poignant, playful and even swinging. |
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Or maybe it is her masterful use of gold inlay, a technique derived from Renaissance artists. |
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His confidence and his ability to keep one step ahead of the questions are masterful. |
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What Evans has provided, however, is a well-written and masterful introduction to this great monastic contemplative and doctor of the church. |
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The UK-based international physical theatre company is known for its masterful contemporary stage presentations. |
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Kevin Pollack invests his version with the subtle genius of a masterful character study. |
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When you don't know what you're doing it's usually best to adopt the pose of masterful inactivity and do nothing. |
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Arbus was also masterful at capturing the normalness of those that mainstream society branded as deviants or freaks. |
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The drawings have a Photo-Realist literalness, and a dense, satiny gloss accenting edges and shadows in a masterful counterpoint of tonal values. |
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Sue Wong should be in New York or even Paris displaying her masterful craftsmanship. |
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His intense, swaggering stage presence and masterful violin playing has won him both fans and critical acclaim all over the world. |
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He in particular is singled out in the painting by his broad brimmed hat, distinctive garb, and masterful gesture. |
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His handling of the debacle was masterful, saving the parent company from financial collapse. |
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Under his masterful direction, with its eccentric perspectives and brilliant compositions, everything comes together delightfully. |
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It's a fast-paced, dynamically choreographed show that features dancing, singing and some masterful drumming. |
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Ben Vereen is nothing short of masterful, a dynamo of energy and enthusiasm that carries the show from beginning to end. |
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Denied the doosra, Harbhajan turned in a masterful performance of offspin bowling. |
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Yet the Floyd's masterful quadrophonic pension plan has retained an amazing capacity to knock people sideways. |
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Moya's book is a masterful weave of empirical study and analytical insights. |
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I'm afraid that I still break out in a cold sweat when Patricia's being masterful. |
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Oh my word, masterful execution there by the ladies, Johnny, just take us through the replay there! |
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Possibly the best write-up of his masterful performance last night is here. |
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But aside from Edith Massey's masterful turn as Queen Charlotta, the whole repellent realm makes little sense. |
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From the beginning, with a masterful simplicity, these films have been ruled by an air of restlessness. |
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The tenor gave a masterful performance of the rhythmically tricky role of Harlequin. |
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Still this is a masterful performance by Andsnes who rises to the occasion quite wonderfully. |
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Bunyan's archetypal characters are dramatically illustrated through fifty masterful watercolor portraits by Barry Moser. |
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Together they form a formidable A-team of masterful musicians who are so special you feel that they are capable of tilting the world on its axis. |
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Zidane is a masterful maestro in the midfield with astonishing moves and is truly a legend among legends. |
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Here, we have seventy-two songs, most of inspired creation and a good many of masterful quality. |
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Arguably, only a masterful scholar could have convinced so many people to accept such an unlikely scenario. |
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Mankiewicz was a great producer, a good scenarist and a masterful writer of dialogue, but for me he was never a director. |
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His interpretation of literary texts and memoirs, especially those from the nineteenth century, is masterful. |
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This was Ireland in dominant mode, masterful and confident in their control as they turned on the style. |
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Many have called Sonia's action, a masterful strategy, and even if this were to be true, it does not matter. |
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He can be a head coach or an assistant whose masterful handling of his players and creation of game plans make a huge difference in a team's fortunes. |
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They offer no suggestions of aerodynamic speed or a masterful sense of balance and coordination. |
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But the Genevan church showed itself every whit as masterful and dogmatic as its Roman rival, and its actions were equally justified by an appeal to Divine authority. |
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The thing to observe, however, is how masterful the educrats are at mounting a noisy, well-masked offensive at the slightest threat to their Soviet-style status quo. |
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Now the steam train's award-winning buffet car, which boasts a host of real ales including York Brewery's masterful Stonewall, is to run every day during the summer. |
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Strange is masterful in her ability to capture and juxtapose the audible qualities of language alongside the literary tools of assonance and alliteration. |
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Yet this masterful, luminous image places him in the august company of the renowned landscapist John Knox, with whom he worked on a series of views of Glasgow. |
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I marvel at her masterful manipulation of the media, and her ability to redirect the national debate with merely a tweet. |
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This figure, now missing its head, is a masterful example of a rare type known as steatopygous, characterized by a fleshy abdomen and massive thighs and buttocks. |
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He also thinks the country's officialdom is masterful at manipulation. |
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And his Nobel address was a masterful defense of America's role as the guarantor of global peace and stability. |
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His football is elegant and masterful, charged with technique and vision. |
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Creative Assembly has done a masterful job of balancing the various factions' capabilities while still retaining a significant measure of historical accuracy. |
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A masterful bunter who navigated the bases with aplomb, Carew studied pitchers as if they were textbooks, looking for any advantage he might use in mano a mano confrontations. |
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The extraordinary solo of one female dancer, lifting her torso and undulating serpentine fashion on her stomach across the stage, was nothing short of masterful. |
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Her ADHD subjects were particularly masterful when the talent in question involved a lack of inhibition. |
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At the heart of his masterful Elegy for Kosovo, the Albanian fabulist Ismail Kadare places the poignant tale of two fourteenth-century minstrels joined in flight. |
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Later, he embarked on a revised edition of this epochal work with a masterful correlation of stethoscopic sounds and diseases of the chest documented by postmortem findings. |
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Very few teachers can feel masterful in such a classroom setting. |
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She's very masterful, very domineering and would look great in leather. |
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The scenes between Redmayne and Jones where the latter party struggles to pull him away from the edge are masterful. |
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That is, until she started her fifth year as the elegant, masterful Diane Lockhart on The Good Wife. |
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Bill Irwin is a masterful comedian, a world-class mime, and a witty emcee. |
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Dear Thief is worthy of the abused critical adjectives philosophical, atmospheric, and masterful. |
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His masterful color sense paired a blood-red satin tunic with fuchsia trousers. |
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They say necessity is the mother of invention, and Wright has done a masterful job shaping his four-guard offense in the wake of Sumpter's knee injury. |
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Benignly evil and an expert glad-hander, Reilly's building owner is a masterful, darkly funny creation, an expert at evasion and doublespeak. |
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Newhouser was the toast of the town for his masterful, 11 to 0 shutout in which he struck out 10 batters. |
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An accomplished writer, she presents in her writings a mix of realism, biting social commentary and a masterful use of free indirect speech. |
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It is a masterful work in the growing literary genre of shrieval scholarship. |
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Then Thurston, Greg Inglis, Jharal Yow Yeh and Cronk all scored in a masterful 10-minute spell to take Australia over the 50-point mark. |
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Dinger is both a wonderful creation and, in Joe Caffrey's masterful hands, an example of how mirth can be found in the grottiest corners. |
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Summertime In My Heart is the highlight, almost veering into saccharine territory until a masterful middle eight sends the chorus soaring. |
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When John spoke in that masterful tone, Meg always obeyed, and never regretted her docility. |
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This masterful drama punctuates nail-biting events at Bletchley Park with schoolday scenes of the young Turing and his first love. |
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While occasional words strike the reader as formal or awkward, it is an admirable translation, articulate and masterful. |
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If you like Ritchie's schtick then you will love this because he is in masterful control of his box of tricks. |
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This is what the author has done in providing a masterful commentary of the Vietnam War and the American involvement in it. |
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Hong Kong even has its own winery, Eighth Estate Winery, which imports viniferous grape juices and makes fine reds and whites with masterful oenological skill. |
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The epyllion fad, for example, thrived in Elizabeth's late masterful reign, but its tremors, like its muse, endured long after the turn of the halcyon sixteenth century. |
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Deborah Black pens a masterful article on Avicenna and the cogitative power, offering a detailed presentation of his account of human thought in light of soul-body dualism. |
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His photographs and masterful expressionistic videos were for me as poignant and as important as the music and the bands and artists he worked with. |
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Henry Sapoznik's masterful history of klezmer music is beautifully augmented by a detailed consideration of the life and career of klezmer clarinetist Dave Tarras. |
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Unlike his other potential prey, which scarpered quickly despite his disguises, the pizza doesn't move, so it looks like the masterful Hoot Owl will get his meal after all. |
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The masterful conducting ensured the orchestra gave of their best. |
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His masterful direction cohesively unites the disparate elements while realising it with kinetic visuals and a pulsatingly authentic score from AR Rahman. |
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At that time I was mad about surf-casting, and here was a tanned and lithe fellow, young and black-haired, casting the long line with a masterful arc. |
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