Example sentences for: virtuoso

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

  • Spike Lee is a virtuoso filmmaker, a wizard at selling a sequence, but he'll never make an entirely coherent movie until he learns to go deeper into his subjects instead of wider with them.

  • Sir Walter Scott and Robert Adam are here, but you will also find individuals such as Neil Gow, a virtuoso fiddler of great renown in his own lifetime (1727–1807).

  • The '70s megastar's first album of new songs in nine years is deemed melancholic and sluggish, "like it has been injected with a tranquilizer" (David Browne, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics lament that his guitar playing includes none of his signature virtuoso licks.

  • The few who find the production enchanting claim, "It is hard to think of another American opera composed with a comparable degree of musical sophistication and sheer virtuoso compositional chops" (Richard Dyer, the Boston Globe ). Even the negative reviews give grudging respect to the opera, with the New York Times ' Bernard Holland admitting that it "may also be the victim of the inflated expectations surrounding it."

  • There are only two works on paper in the show: an image of a geisha derived from a Japanese woodblock print on the cover of Paris Illustré of 1886, and van Gogh's virtuoso tracing of its outlines.


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