This extracurricular task was a masterly stroke by a director who calls herself maternal and runs the three-year-old private school in a storefront in a mall.

He did so, and a few masterly strokes gave the sketch what it needed.

Who, after this masterly stroke, can doubt of their abilities in finance?

It was a masterly stroke!

The presence of that editor-in-chief, Harry Kupfner, had been a masterly stroke.

Persuading the Warrior to take the new team on a mission prematurely had been a masterly stroke.

It turns out that his self-imposed exile from the studio was something more than a masterly stroke of public relations.

That was a masterly stroke, Taita thought bitterly, but he admired the political acumen behind it.

It was a masterly stroke to bring up the pregnancy tonight, my dear.

For example, his decision to employ John Gilbert as his assistant in Australia was a masterly stroke of forward planning.