masterstroke

The other casting masterstroke is Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.

Seeing Double: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory / Fantastic Mr. Fox » Scene-Stealers 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.

Evening Standard - Home 2011

His masterstroke was a proclamation by letter of his abhorrence of the fugitive slave law.

Anthony Burns : a history, 1856

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

Crosscut 2009

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

newsobserver.com blogs 2009

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

New Statesman 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.

TV review: Whitechapel, Horizon and A History of Horror With Mark Gatiss John Crace 2010

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

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

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

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 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.

What I bought – 19 March 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008