Example sentences for: magisterial

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

  • 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.

  • You can hear as much in tapes of Stevens reading aloud; he is so intent on keeping an even, magisterial tone that he occasionally loses himself in the convoluted syntax on which Vendler expends such analytic energy.

  • The GOP needs to shut Burton up and make the magisterial Henry Hyde, R-Ill., the face of the GOP investigation, advises David Gergen ( The McLaughlin Group ). Robert Novak ( Capital Gang ) reveals that Burton was nearly sent packing by a panicked Gingrich, who was placated when Burton fired David Bossie, a top aide.

  • His ministry's motto was: "É conomie et culture--même combat ." So he launched what historian Marc Fumaroli, in his magisterial L'État Culturel, calls "a strategy of opinion intoxication."

  • My first professional movie reviews were written in 1982 at the weekly Boston Phoenix under the tutelage of Stephen Schiff, then a magisterial film critic as well as an exacting editor.


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