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.

  • "That's when we hope," the magisterial wise man said, "that cooler heads will prevail, and they'll stop and talk."

  • 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.

  • The Weekly Standard 's John Podhoretz compares Horowitz's conversion to conservatism to Whittaker Chambers' magisterial tale of apostasy, Witness . Leftists dismiss the book as score-settling and name-calling.

  • 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.


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