masterstrokes

• “Roy Hodgson's dismissal and Kenny Dalglish's romantic re-installation may prove masterstrokes but, to many outside Merseyside, it appears a strangely sentimental exchange.”

  The Guardian: Clubs should serve the fans, not pander to fantasies of democracy | Louise Taylor

• “He did this through a series of tactical masterstrokes that involved buying a new suit and, er, that's it.”

  The Guardian: Call that a change of direction?

• “I happen to think that both the flip flop notion, and the tomato raid are the genius masterstrokes of forward thinking policing:”

  Be afraid, be very afraid……. actually, don’t be. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “One of the masterstrokes of the ACLU is its quest to mold American law as it desires through judicial activism.”

  Simon & Schuster: Can America Survive?

• “The characterisation remains strong, and in A Storm of Swords Martin delivers one of his masterstrokes by upgrading the hitherto villainous and reprehensible Jaime Lannister to full POV status.”

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• “In politics, what distinguishes genius from folly, masterstrokes from blunders?”

  The Washington Post: Obama didn't change. We did.

• “One is persuaded that amply funded experts could negate -- in masterstrokes devoid of unintended consequences -- financial sleight-of-hand, environmental degradation, unconscionable hunger and poverty, diplomatic fearfulness and mistrust, potentially irrevocable climatic instability, and ongoing nuclear proliferation.”

  Sanjay Khanna: Expert As Frenemy: Notes On The New Yorker Summit

• “While every case is its own animal, it's not hard to predict the public relations follies and masterstrokes that might be on the horizon.”

  Eric Dezenhall: The Criminalization of Risk and the Coming Flack Attack

• “Had this president a long record of foreign policy success and diplomatic masterstrokes, one might assume he was cooking up something inspired and brilliant.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Sweet Victory

• “It was a political masterstroke last year but masterstrokes cheapen with time.”

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