Masterstroke

The other casting masterstroke is Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The impact he has will be immediate and represents something of a short-term masterstroke by the club's American owners in terms of cementing their own popularity. ❋ Unknown (2011)

His masterstroke was a proclamation by letter of his abhorrence of the fugitive slave law. ❋ Unknown (1856)

Of course, there is a way that the new viaduct plan might fairly be called a masterstroke and a bargain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the masterstroke was the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale," in a cool percussive arrangement that barreled along like a steam train. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Another masterstroke was the decision to shoot on location, placing the film firmly in the grand, raw tradition of Peter Brook's ❋ Unknown (2009)

Whitechapel is going to have to pull off some kind of masterstroke next week to wrap this one up in any way that's remotely convincing. ❋ John Crace (2010)

Having this man in the Lords on their behalf is not a 'masterstroke' but more like bad luck. ❋ Unknown (2009)

 It's as if they have these personality traits grafted onto them, and then, in a final "masterstroke," made aware that they don't have real personalities. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Analysts there also called the company's recent purchase of the Ekibastuz power plant and associated coal mine in Kazakhstan earlier this year, a potential "masterstroke" noting that the deal made it the largest power supplier in Kazakhstan. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You see, this confession was a kind of masterstroke; I intended to use it as a means to your good grace and favour — and then — then I meant to walk off with a hundred and fifty roubles. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Naples handled the conspiracy of the nobles of his kingdom made him, in the eyes of Italy, not horrible but great; and Macchiavelli speaks of the trick with which Cæsar Borgia outwitted his treacherous condottieri at Sinigaglia as a "masterstroke," while the Bishop Paolo Giovio called it "the most beautiful piece of deception." ❋ Ferdinand Gregorovius (N/A)

You see, this confession was a kind of masterstroke; I intended to use it as a means to your good grace and favour -- and then -- then I meant to walk off with a hundred and fifty roubles. ❋ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1851)

Whitechapel is going to have to pull off some kind of masterstroke next week to wrap this one up in any way that's remotely convincing . ❋ John Crace (2010)

The mere fact that serial embarrassment David Blunkett describes it as a "masterstroke" says all that's necessary of this third time unlucky triumph of hope over experience. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mr Blunkett, who like Mr Mandelson had to quit the Government twice, described Mr Mandelson's appointment as a "masterstroke". ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mr Blunkett, who also had to quit the Government twice, described Mr Mandelson's appointment as a "masterstroke".

'masterstroke' of getting Haji Dilshad Ali of the BSP to retire in his favour, ensured that people, particularly Dalits and Muslims, lost faith in that party all over Delhi and voted en masse for the Congress. ❋ Unknown (2009)