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  • a biography of the composer, piano virtuoso and child prodigy Franz Liszt.  (source)
  • ...they haven't devised such virtuoso methods of mass slaughter.  (source)
    virtuoso = of someone who is spectacularly skilled in a particular field
  • Juilliard was for virtuoso musicians, and it seemed arrogant to even think that they'd give me a second glance.  (source)
    virtuoso = someone who is spectacularly skilled in a particular field
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  • Like a much younger Mike Murphy, he too was a virtuoso at...  (source)
    virtuoso = someone who is spectacularly skilled in a particular field
  • Virtuosity in Talmud was the achievement most sought after by every student of a yeshiva, for it was the automatic guarantee of a reputation for brilliance.  (source)
    Virtuosity = spectacular skill
  • Leora and Nelly Byers admired the bloods—graduates of Yale and Harvard and Princeton, lawyers and bankers, motor-manufacturers and inheritors of real estate, virtuosi of golf, familiars of New York—who with their shrill and glistening women occupied the front rows.†  (source)
    virtuosi = people who are spectacularly skilled in a particular field
  • For that matter, it is not all that different from the way the world of classical music picks its future virtuosos, or the way the world of ballet picks its future ballerinas, or the way our elite educational system picks its future scientists and intellectuals.  (source)
  • In the rows of dormitories are cadets who talk of alpine skiing, of duels, of jazz clubs and governesses and boar hunting; boys who employ curse words with virtuosic skill and boys who talk about cigarettes named for cinema stars; boys who speak of "telephoning the colonel" and boys who have baronesses for mothers.†  (source)
  • ...the orchestra's first energetic notes, which made her jump in her seat; the romance and tragedy of the story; the virtuoso performances and the songs, some of which were so beautiful that they'd brought tears to her eyes.  (source)
    virtuoso = spectacularly skillful
  • But lie played without feeling; he was always outside the music, drawing it out of the piano as if by magic, by the virtuosity of his vampire senses and control; the music did not come through him, was not drawn through him by himself.†  (source)
  • THE DUENNA (pointing to the pages): How come these two virtuosi here?†  (source)
    virtuosi = people who are spectacularly skilled in a particular field
  • Diarrhea became the constant companion of many riders, some of whom became virtuosos of defecation.†  (source)
  • Mrs. Palmer was in Europe at the time, but her private secretary, Laura Hayes, a gossip of virtuosic scope, made sure her employer learned all the details.†  (source)
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