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Fritz Lang and Preminger used log takes and elaborated camera moves that were totally invisible. they were not meant to be "maestria" moves but rather thought to multiply the angles within the same shot, giving the audience a sense of pace without having to change angles.
davekehr.com 2008
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Jon Wolston (13: 43: 10): esta declaracion de la maestria de Blei
jorge luis borges | the destiny of borges « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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MexConnect. com Forums: Specific Focus: Learning Spanish: maestria en pedagogia?
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I thought maestria was teaching and that would be redundant.
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He begged pardon for his indiscretion in listening to the argument, and congratulated Christophe on the _maestria_ with which he had pulverized his opponents.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905
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His health is improving, and his prodigious maestria at its height.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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Once on a time you used to cultivate fugues with maestria: will that of Sgambati seem to you classical enough?
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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When we come upon some _nueva maestria_, as the old Spanish poet called it, some cunning trick of form, some craftsman-like adjustment of style and kind to literary purposes, we shall generally find that it was invented in France.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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Her one great literary achievement -- admirable in some respects, incomparable in itself -- is not a novelty in kind; she has no lessons in form to give, which, like some of Italy's, have not been improved upon to this day; she cannot, like Germany, boast a great quantity of work of equal accomplishment and inspiration; least of all has she the astonishing fertility and the unceasing _maestria_ of France.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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The Spanish Apollonius, [199] however, is noteworthy, because it is written in a form which is also used by Berceo, and which has sometimes been thought to be spoken of in the poem itself as _nueva maestria_.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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