masterstroke

If that was what was in his mind three years ago—it was a masterstroke and one that may end up prolonging his regime.

Raising 9/11 at the debate as a psychic event rather than one of national security was a masterstroke that won the day.

And he was also capable of the masterstroke of impudence—putting out a pickup order, through Spaceforce, for his own name!

Oedipus by a masterstroke of art is made to imagine that she has departed in shame, fearing he may be proved the son of a slave.

It was not a scheme generated in his teeming brain, like the strategy of a campaign, or a masterstroke of diplomacy.

But the great Frenchman's masterstroke was his treaty with Gustavus Adolphus.

When Fanny returned with your letter this morning, I prepared for a masterstroke.