master-strokes

All three are justly viewed as rhetorical master-strokes by Plato, but for different reasons.

Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry Griswold, Charles 2008

Why will these girls put me upon my master-strokes?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Why, it was the simplest thing in the world, as all master-strokes are.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Howe, which has put thee upon what thou callest thy master-strokes.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

A spirit of penance keeps us from becoming too attached to the vast imaginative blueprints we have made for our future projects, where we have already foreseen our master-strokes and brilliant successes.

Archive 2004-05-01 Julie D. 2004

A spirit of penance keeps us from becoming too attached to the vast imaginative blueprints we have made for our future projects, where we have already foreseen our master-strokes and brilliant successes.

Don't Hit That Snooze Button Julie D. 2004

This confidential mission, requiring as much power to take the initiative as it demanded a cool head, gave the Marquis opportunity to execute, with rapidity and decision, several master-strokes, which, in the following circumstances, won for him the cross of the Legion of Honor.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

The master-strokes of commercial and administrative skill would be much more masterly with most people if they did not have to proceed from a hard office chair.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30 Various

Again, one of the master-strokes in Bulwer-Lytton's

Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

“Of her there cannot much be said, ” he answered; “for a few master-strokes complete her character.

Chapter XIV. Book IV 1917