Examples of masterstroke

• I think that is quite a masterstroke.

• The second state pension is a masterstroke.

• He spent the night drawing up his final battleplans, including the masterstroke of painting identifiable gold and black checks on the ships.

• Larrieu was surprisingly made first choice for the 200102 season but this decision proved to be a masterstroke.

• The second version was a masterstroke, a second act to dramatize the entropy of the motion.

• He called the march a masterstroke that demonstrates the full emotional range of thematic transformation.

• The effectiveness of the concluding line in the concluding stanza has divided critics and has variously been described as a masterstroke of understatement and overtly sentimental.

• Other schemes included the building of shelters for migrant workers; the forgiveness of rural debt; and, in a populist masterstroke, a plan to have an electric bulb in every house.