Example sentences for: magisterial

How can you use “magisterial” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bernard Shaw's got the gravitas and a great magisterial voice, but there's still something too cheesy about the CNN mise-en-scène . Ted Koppel is too in-your-face.

  • But even though recent years have seen the publication of symposia on speciation and books on the ever-contentious issue of species concepts, it has been 23 years since Verne Grant's authoritative Plant Speciation [1] and 41 years since Ernst Mayr's magisterial and highly influential Animal Species and Evolution [2]—the last syntheses of research on speciation.

  • A magisterial storyteller, Branch ranges confidently over these peaks and valleys, but he also stops along the way to explore a slew of seemingly less significant tales.

  • Robert W. Burchfield, the longtime editor of the Oxford English Dictionary , treats the phrase with magisterial derision in The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (1996)--he dismisses it as "one of the ignoble clichés introduced into the language in the 20c.

  • The second of three volumes chronicling the civil-rights movement is deemed as magisterial as the Pulitzer Prize-winning first, Parting the Waters (1988).


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