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"masterstroke" Definitions
  1. something clever that you do that gives a successful result

162 Sentences With "masterstroke"

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China's diplomatic masterstroke Beijing, in all this, has pulled off a diplomatic masterstroke.
Was it a slip, or a masterstroke of digital misinformation?
The title song of "Everything Now" is the album's masterstroke.
Upon closer scrutiny, we can find the Saudi masterstroke behind Doha.
The Doha washout was the Saudi masterstroke to regain its importance.
But the meta aspects of Shelly's play are a conceptual masterstroke.
Against this backdrop, the Alexa Prize was a masterstroke for Amazon.
That may have be the future nominee's last masterstroke, in fact.
Certainly, there is a world in which this is a diplomatic masterstroke.
And viewed in that light, The Mummy is sort of a masterstroke.
Using the show's dueling-perspective structure against itself is the episode's masterstroke.
And it might have been even gutsier than Saban's masterstroke last year.
There's a final managerial masterstroke by Fring at the end of the episode.
Nineteen minutes of bidding duly confirmed that this had been a marketing masterstroke.
The transfer proved a masterstroke for Ferguson, in the short term, at least.
Starting with "God Bless America" and "This Land is Your Land" was a masterstroke.
Berlin is also home to the Mecca of electronic music: the brutalist masterstroke Berghain.
If Trump is able to get that concession it will be an unparalleled masterstroke.
Bishop returning to the company was going to be the PR masterstroke for Cooter & Cooter.
Format aside, Mr Miller's masterstroke was to cut the narrative free of Batman's official continuity.
For the Democrats, Khan's speech was, at least in the short-term, a political masterstroke.
Malign actors are taking cues from Russia's 2016 masterstroke and are adapting to local conditions.
Amazon's decision to draw on classical mythology in naming its smart speaker was a masterstroke.
This is why the strategy's strong emphasis on counterterrorism is nothing short of a masterstroke.
Adding the American to his team for the grasscourt season has proved to be a masterstroke.
LONDON (Reuters) - What started as a bit of fun may just have led to a masterstroke.
It's one of the few things he still has any control over and it's a masterstroke.
To deal with laundry — in many ways her masterstroke — Ms. Gabe designed a tightly sealed cabinet.
Another masterstroke was signing up Peter Burling to steer the team's 50-foot (15 meter) foiling catamaran.
Casting Seth Rogen, the perpetual irresponsible stoner dude, as the cranky dad next door was a masterstroke.
Berlusconi's decision to sack Niels Liedholm and recruit Sacchi was a masterstroke, but also a significant gamble.
In sum, experts argue that Trump has either pulled off a geopolitical masterstroke or has doomed humanity.
Another masterstroke was signing up Peter Burling to steer the team's 50-foot (15 metre) foiling catamaran.
The decision to redo "Facts" was a masterstroke; the decision to completely overhaul "Wolves" was a shitshow.
He opposed the bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osiraq in 1981, which most Israelis thought a masterstroke.
A strategic masterstroke by MacArthur, the surprise amphibious landing of 75,000 troops changed the course of the war.
Turns out that setting character drama writers to work on a mystery show is something of a masterstroke.
He's not trying to cap off his career with a legislative masterstroke, because he doesn't care about legislation.
Its masterstroke is newly contextualizing ages-old themes and motifs into a thoroughly contemporary, divided African-American landscape.
In 2003, Apple made a masterstroke: Its music software, iTunes, was released for Windows as well as MacOS.
Only time will tell if Amazon's bid to upend the world of food was a masterstroke or a mistake.
From the Brexit campaign to Beyoncé's Super Bowl masterstroke, CNBC takes a look over the past 22.25 months in marketing.
But others, like fictional US President Frank Underwood from the Netflix series "House of Cards," say it's a political masterstroke.
Signing corner Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie was a masterstroke, and Rodgers-Cromartie parlayed it into a huge deal with the Giants.
He believes that releasing his list of potential court picks during the campaign was a masterstroke, and helped him win.
It was a political masterstroke: Every 10 years, following the census, congressional lines are redrawn to account for population changes.
Writes Seitz (in an essay that should be read in full): The show's casting masterstroke occurred in the white roles.
But environmentalist Patrick Ramage says the decision ended up being an "elegant" masterstroke that gave almost everybody something they wanted.
The euro was a political masterstroke, but he ignored warnings, prescient in retrospect, that a common currency needed common political foundations.
Mr Trump's defenders argue that using tariffs as a threat to force Mexico to get tough on migration was a masterstroke.
"There won't be any single engineering masterstroke that is going to change the course of climate change and warming," Orff said.
The little EV may look like just another five-door compact, but two figures make it an engineering masterstroke: 200 and 30,000.
But in a tactical masterstroke, Broos brought on Aboubakar, a striker who plays for the Turkish club Besiktas, with two minutes remaining.
"It was a shrewd masterstroke of image control," wrote Josh King in his new book "Off Script," about the optics of presidential campaigns.
The finale is a masterstroke of editing, as Campillo merges lively dance floor action and activist antics until they blur together as one.
The move was a public relations masterstroke that took advantage of softening government control and tapped into a public hunger for local films.
I am incredibly grateful for everything I learned from him — and the masterstroke of luck that brought us together before the 2016 election.
That decision looked like a masterstroke when the 42-year-old won the Tour Championships last week, ending a five-year title drought.
The FCC's masterstroke in 2015, the lead-up to which formed the first article in this series, made a lot of people very angry.
Casting Rockwell in Moon was a masterstroke because his earthy presence helps make the clean-lined, blindingly white lunar base feel more lived-in.
Attempting to one-up that sort of masterstroke would surely be flying too close to the sun — but researchers at MIT are trying nonetheless.
It'll build hype so immense that it'll make Disney's decision to wait look, in retrospect, like marketing masterstroke, rather than a cause for concern.
First was Barty's masterstroke — dumping tennis life and swapping her racket for a bat, and a year playing professional Big Bash Cricket in Australia.
When Trump named Bannon the CEO of his campaign last year, nobody considered it a political masterstroke, nor a sign of a healthy operation.
Under those circumstances, enacting a vast, regressive, polarizing agenda wouldn't be a masterstroke—the product of the hard work of persuasion and consensus-building.
Trump's choosing John Bolton to lead his National Security Council just as preparations are being made leading up to the talks is a masterstroke.
"It was a real masterstroke, in my opinion, to keep that seat open in 27," Tom Cotton, the Republican senator from Arkansas, told me.
The only grand statements on the right to marriage and equality are from their lawyers; saving this for the film's climax is an emotive masterstroke.
Enlisting support from major celebrities was a masterstroke: youth will always be seduced by fame, and as everyone knows, early seduction has long lasting consequences.
His masterstroke is a report of strange goings-on in the mountains, which he backs up with what are supposedly aerial photographs of sinister constructions.
Cancelling the trip, rather than admitting you're scared-silly at the prospect of facing massive protests you'd inevitably encounter upon your arrival, was a masterstroke!
The video for "King of Sorrow" was a masterstroke of Sade-ness, where she wore ball gowns and a bandanna, scrubbing a child's shoe clean.
The real masterstroke was Vinny getting me to shake the thing and then denying having made the key shaking gesture, or having any involvement at all.
Yet most argue that avoiding Trump's scorn was the closest thing the campaign had to a masterstroke -- nearly every candidate who attacked Trump, of course, crashed.
Appalled at what resulted from his world-shattering masterstroke, he has joined the enemy, E Corp, as a security analyst and aims to undo the hack.
Going with a player like DiVincenzo, who thrived in a winning culture and is more of a sure thing in several regards might be a masterstroke.
The ending, in which the three main characters quarrel about whether Faust won or lost his wager with Mephisto, is a theatrical masterstroke worth waiting for.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&aposs announcement that she may delay President Donald Trump&aposs impeachment trial has been hailed in some quarters as a tactical masterstroke.
The original Grand Theft Auto, above most contemporary games and certainly, for me, above its franchise follow-ups, is a masterstroke of subjective vision and fallible narration.
In a masterstroke of jujitsu, you can use the power of the free press Trump attracts to highlight all the ways you think he'd be a disaster.
Trump first replaced Sessions with acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, but his real masterstroke seems to have been in choosing Bill Barr to fill the role permanently.
C.K.'s masterstroke was filming the whole thing like a live TV drama from the 1950s, which only added to its "stage play lost in time" quality.
Yet, while the barbershop scene is significant, the masterstroke with the GSAP film is the bitter truth that, sometimes, community doesn't have your best interests at heart.
The masterstroke of "The Little Prince," Mark Osborne's reimagining of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1943 children's classic, is its side-by-side use of two styles of animation.
The scene change of Act I can be among the great moments of world theater, and the transformation of Nutcracker into Prince is a beast-into-beauty masterstroke.
Cherlin writes: His masterstroke was to recognize the desperation of the white working class over the deteriorating industrial economy and to encourage their tendency to racialize that desperation.
Ranch was already popular on its own, but the combination of cream and crunch in one bite — a fusion of dip and chip — turned out to be a masterstroke.
"Absolutely no one trusts or believes that this central bank is still able to fix this," he said, describing the forex policy sarcastically as a "masterstroke" that destroyed the economy.
As the Joyce Theater curtain descends at the end of the Sarasota Ballet's production of Frederick Ashton's "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales," a softly dazzling masterstroke of choreography is still occurring.
It may be more than two decades old, but the title track from 21998's Ray of Light still slaps remarkably hard, and 20033's "Hung Up" remains a masterstroke.
When it comes to Leonardo, the result is either an inelegant and amateurish faux pas, as her critics contend, or a political masterstroke ahead of European Parliament elections in May.
That she campaigned with such extraordinary feebleness — making Mr. Corbyn's seven and a half look like a masterstroke of decisiveness — might just be attributable to the confusion in her heart.
Big Chocolate's investment in health science was a marketing masterstroke, catapulting dark chocolate into the superfood realm along with red wine, blueberries, and avocados — and helping to sell more candy.
Inside Out's masterstroke is its realization that we all need all of our emotions, and our tendency to try to force our kids into happiness can often do them real damage.
The presentation of these two works couldn't be more understated or more effective: a curatorial masterstroke allowing the paintings to speak for themselves, with just the right amount of supplemental information.
The sole masterstroke is "The Fixer," where a handyman fears all his ginger ale on the nightstand and keys to locks long departed will never ease his wife the fighter's... pain?
In Birmingham, in Muscle Shoals and most especially in Tuscaloosa, they speak in awed tones about the coaching masterstroke Alabama's Nick Saban executed in last season's College Football Playoff championship game.
Probably not, except that their decision to weave in the Wilhelm Müller poems that Schubert did not set is a masterstroke, especially when read with such musical sense by Mr. Gerhaher.
GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO Last year's most awe-inspiring jazz release was "Emanon," Wayne Shorter's three-disc masterstroke, much of which he recorded live with his quartet joined by the London Chamber Orchestra.
The ploy proved a masterstroke as De Bruyne tied Brazil's defense in knots in a brilliant opening half, scoring a stunning 31st minute goal to double the lead after Fernandinho's own goal.
Most importantly, it covers all the apps you've got installed, and the feed idea, which automatically populates with media you've followed or previously shown an interest in, is a masterstroke as well.
The deal, which allows logging and mining in areas aboriginals have agreed to, is the culmination of a long public-relations campaign (choosing the Kermode bear as its mascot was a masterstroke).
Calling out CM Punk was a masterstroke on Gall's part: his debut win and subsequent offer to CM Punk would be seen by millions of people on both Fight Pass and YouTube.
When Mr. Bezos published his essay, commentators were nearly unanimous in hailing it as a public relations masterstroke: Somehow, the world's richest man, caught cheating on his wife, was now a victim.
Director Frears maintains a quick, frolicsome tone right up until the moment Florence receives her coup de grace, which he delivers with a bold, simple and unexpected shot that's something of a masterstroke.
Her masterstroke is to close with "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored," in which she shrugs, forgets all the lessons she's learned in the past 40 minutes, and winks at the audience.
" And he acted as if his threat to leave NAFTA—an obvious bluff—was really a masterstroke of negotiation: "I get a call from Mexico yesterday, 'We hear you're going to terminate NAFTA.
All of which did a lot of good for the United States of America and all the working stiffs who did not know that losing about a billion dollars is a financial masterstroke.
In one great masterstroke of financial chicanery, Marty manages to convince the cartel and the Snells to invest together in a riverboat casino that would allow drugs and bad money to flow freely.
In an uncanny masterstroke, the female corps de ballet returns to the stage in a single diagonal line heading straight for the lovers, making them separate (again and again) even as they kneel.
However, with many OPEC nations on the edge of collapse, the next OPEC meeting will confirm if the Saudi move was indeed a masterstroke, or if it was just a short-lived power grab.
While some analysts said the shift in sectoral focus might prove another masterstroke by Broadcom Chief Executive Hock Tan, the knee-jerk reaction of investors drove Broadcom stock 10 percent lower in premarket trading.
The Astros recovered to win the next game, and by his next trip to the postseason, in 2008, Lidge had added a final masterstroke to his slider, a third way to make it break.
Oh, by the way, since we're here lauding you, we should point out the Elle magazine profile, that in a masterstroke of timing came out I think last week, days in advance of this?
But in a strategic masterstroke, Jaime Lannister had withdrawn his forces and attacked Highgarden instead — where House Tyrell's Queen of Thorns drank poison and told Jaime she was responsible for the death of his son.
It was a masterstroke, and it paid off: Between 210 and 2000, there was a near tenfold increase in OxyContin prescriptions in the US for chronic non-malignant pain, from 670,000 to 6.2 million annually.
And while the President is likely to hail liberalization of American oil and natural gas exports as a masterstroke, he is less likely to say that it reflects policies belatedly implemented by the last administration.
But in the way it seamlessly weaves the facts of her life with fictions—the ghosts that still haunt her, the fact that even time travel could not undo what's been done—is a masterstroke.
It was a masterstroke of negotiating, and Boras had forecast the action in a text message Sunday night to Jim Bowden, the former Cincinnati and Washington general manager who now works for MLB Network Radio.
Instead of signing to a major label, he started Roc-a-Fella Records with Dame Dash to release Reasonable Doubt, the type of entrepreneurial masterstroke that he'd repeat again and again over the next two decades.
President Donald Trump is bragging that his decision last week to withdraw US troops from northern Syria — leaving America's allies, the Syrian Kurds, to fend for themselves against invading Turkish forces — was a "strategically brilliant" masterstroke.
There's the polished 2-step charm of "Flex", the sparky bounce of "Pussyole (Old Skool)", and the masterstroke of "Da Feelin'"—a sun-kissed Shy FX-produced d'n'b single that somehow manages to miraculously sidestep tackiness.
Inside Saudi Arabia, he is a giant whose face is everywhere—printed on cellphone covers and hung over entrances to shopping malls—and whose every initiative is sold as a masterstroke by loyal boosters and journalists.
The masterstroke of The Americans' conception, something that carried it through an occasionally shaky first season into the much stronger standing it boasts now, is the series' idea that espionage isn't really different from everyday life.
Although it was unrelated to the American underground filmmaker Arthur Bressan, Jr.'s final masterstroke, the timing was not coincidental: 21985,22018 AIDS-related deaths were reported that year, including that of Reagan family friend Rock Hudson.
" Positioning old-foe Germany as the real enemy, while unleashing a "wave of hyped-up victimhood," he suggested, was Brexit's masterstroke: "It's all linked to humiliation—one of the most powerful forces for right-wing nationalism.
Had Scalia lived through the 2016 election, he would have retired with Trump in office, and the process of replacing him with Neil Gorsuch would have been a normal SCOTUS succession rather than a Mitch McConnell masterstroke.
The first phase is he has thought subsequently and I think is correct that it was a political masterstroke of his to release that list because it was really important to the Republicans base voters, it energized them.
On Wednesday, U.S. investor Bill Franke pulled together a cohort of airlines in which he has stakes to announce a preliminary wholesale deal for 430 Airbus jets, achieving what one awed financier called a "masterstroke" of low prices.
What ultimately brought them about was less a sea change in the Supreme Court justices' worldview, or some masterstroke of lawyering, than a steady exertion of influence by civil society organizations whose members were deeply committed to change.
While some analysts said the shift in sectoral focus might prove another masterstroke by Broadcom Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan, many raised concerns about a deal that lowers Broadcom's top line growth to 3 percent from 5 percent.
Mr. Lloyd, in a masterstroke, gives us the invisible presence of the third party who inevitably hovers over such scenarios: All three actors are onstage virtually throughout, shadowing or silently observing when they're not part of a scene.
Because Banerjee's work is so deeply anthropological, situating it among the traditional portraiture and landscapes that built PAFA's reputation as one of the country's preeminent institutions for instilling traditional methods of art-making in its students is a masterstroke.
Republicans at the time panned Trump for cutting GOP leaders out of the loop, but now his decision looks like a masterstroke as it has created time on the schedule to take a second shot at health-care reform.
For as long as anyone born after 1990 can remember, New York has been a franchise addicted to the combination of glory and the quick fix, to the notion of a masterstroke that reanimates the dormant magic of Madison Square Garden.
All of that alone would be enough for Amazon to take the crown, but it's all just a prelude to the Halloween programming masterstroke — a monster flick so legendarily terrible that it transcends all notions of good and bad, right and wrong.
The deployment was a political masterstroke by Park, according to historian Kil J Yi, as it made the president essential to a US government that was balking at the cost of propping up a South Korean administration moving further from, not toward, democracy.
The jet has been a labor of love for Fujino, who confounded industry colleagues with the craft's engineering masterstroke: engines mounted on the wings, not the fuselage, which reduces cabin noise and makes space for a full-sized washroom, a first in its segment.
And though it's debatable which release was truly his greatest achievement, or if his masterstroke was just his experimental label Hospital Productions as a whole, there is no question as to which LP truly shook the underground on the largest scale: Frozen Niagara Falls.
With the Conservatives high in the polls, much of the press and many of her colleagues hailed it as a strategic masterstroke which could increase the slender majority she had inherited from David Cameron and provide much-needed wiggle room to push through Brexit.
Then, wielding the masterstroke in the days that followed, he announced that if the United States would not change its policy on Cuban migrants, the Cuban government would no longer seek to stop people trying to leave the island, instead turning a blind eye.
The masterstroke of this scene in the deepest circle of Hell is in Dante's depiction of each of the Devil's awful mouths: in the foremost (the big red one) is Judas, Jesus' betrayer; in the others are Cassius and Brutus, who worked together to do in Caesar.
Some analysts in Washington saw Mr. Kim's visit to Beijing as a masterstroke that softened his international image as a rogue figure and made him look as if he genuinely wants a peaceful resolution to the conflict, potentially complicating Mr. Trump's task in their upcoming meeting.
The repeal of the Obamacare mandate — "an especially cruel tax" (tip of the hat to the Supreme Court!) "that fell mostly on Americans making less than $50,000 a year" — was a political masterstroke, devised by the impressive Senator Tom Cotton but quickly embraced by Mr. Trump.
The resignation was most likely another masterstroke by the last survivor of the band of wily Communist bosses who seized power in their respective republics when the Soviet Union fell apart and repurposed themselves as national champions and, in Central Asia at least, as all-powerful despots.
LONDON (Reuters) - Petra Kvitova's decision to give her shoes an almighty whack with her racket turned out to be a masterstroke as the Czech's legs finally started to move more freely, and she eked out a 20153-5 6-2 win over Kristina Mladenovic at Wimbledon on Thursday.
After Zelensky's somewhat awkward coming-out ceremony in the United States in that press conference with Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, a forceful speech before Congress could be the diplomatic masterstroke of the decade for Ukraine, and set the country on a new trajectory.
Written and directed by Hannah Macpherson, an award-winning filmmaker born in New Mexico, Sickhouse's masterstroke is casting social media celebrity, Andrea Russett (or "andwizzle" on Snapchat) as its lead: a new breed of Warholian celebrity, Russett is famous in front of three-odd million followers in ten-second intervals.
The device of having her memories all mixed up with Will's memories from the pilot (where he remembered the Tulsa massacre) and episode six is a masterstroke here, because it underlines all of the ways we are built atop traumas we barely understand, traumas that are passed along to us.
The full/not full pairing is an intuitive leap, one of many throughout the show (the artist's decisions governing the choice and hierarchy of forms can seem all but inscrutable), but it is also a compositional masterstroke, subtly wrecking the symmetry of the two shapes and unbalancing an otherwise too-stable structure.
I didn't see how it would work, but I think it was Danny who decided we needed that contemporary feel, which was a masterstroke, because Britpop was kind of the last strand of British youth culture, and it helped to position the film as being the last movie of British youth culture.
In that clever disruption of logic lies perhaps the author's most enduring masterstroke, a trick that in the mind's eye has the power to pull bombs back up into the bellies of Lancasters and B-17s, return fat to the bones of starving P.O.W.s and let lives senselessly deleted be suddenly restored.
The decision to center the story on Andrew Cunanan, the man who killed designer Gianni Versace (and four other people) in 20183, was a controversial one, but the show's backward storytelling ended up being a masterstroke — a kind of forced re-closeting of a country that's only recently become (slightly) more accepting of gay men.
It turned out to be a masterstroke for season four, though, because now everything else the series has done to this point is tossed together under the umbrella of one big, overarching question: We know how TV works, so we know Jimmy and Gretchen will probably get together again at some point — but should they?
And in a quiet masterstroke, Ms. Franzmann communicates the cruel irony of a 303-year-old Clem handed an unexpected child in the form of her own dwindling father: a termagant who would like to be there for his burgeoning family but realizes that his combative spirit is on the verge of losing the fight.
We have watched Curry glide through the rest of the NBA for two seasons now, getting out of every manner of trouble with a shimmy or a deft stepback, and so we find it difficult to believe that his relative underperformance on the game's biggest stage could be the result of some just-conceived defensive masterstroke.
Rust was a controversial one—though they all are, to some extent, because perhaps the world isn't ready for dongs—because it assigned every player a different-sized pecker based on their Steam ID. It was a masterstroke, but one that the players didn't quite appreciate, despite it being pretty similar to, you know, real life.
The decision to shift his diagram practice from wall to floor, and to expand its scale and vary its medium proves a masterstroke: marked with sports boundary lines, heraldic Andean flags of Quevedo's 2017 wayqe pana/ brother sister hanging overhead, the atrium's sunken hardwood floor looks like a dead ringer for a gymnasium floor, right down to its many scuff marks.
The unease in certain quarters of the Trump administration with the president's decision to bring on former hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci as his new director of communications speaks volumes, both about the source of Trump's current difficulties in getting momentum behind his policy agenda, and about why it was a masterstroke to make this move at this crucial time.
"Every Which Way" seems to have made a virtue out of its differences with that masterstroke of art and engineering, coming on lightly with a clarity of space and scale: the black slabs stand in a stately progression, cutting deeply into the visual field presented by the room's white walls, with the gaps in between feeling as crisp as Alpine air.
Co-directed by relatively lesser-known directors Ian Bonhôte (known for music videos and fashion ads) and Peter Ettedgui (who had previously worked on films about George Best and Jean Vigo), the masterstroke of McQueen is the narrow focus on McQueen's family — his mother, sister, and nephew — and the small group of people he worked closely with to create the 'Alexander McQueen' of fashion legend.
Banning a single person, however justified it may be—and while Yiannopoulos surely earned it, he earned it knowing that an eventual ban would only boost his own brand (#freemilo is currently trending on Twitter), which is the ultimate Twitter masterstroke if you really want to go there—it's ultimately not going to change much, just as banning the tireless troll Charles C. Johnson did little to empower users to protect themselves from similar abuse.

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