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Virtuoso

noun

(pl. virtuosos; It. virtuosi)

Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard.

A musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry.

adjective

Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill. Synonyms: consummate, masterful, masterly. "Consummate skill" , "A masterful speaker" , "Masterful technique" , "A masterly performance of the sonata" , "A virtuoso performance"

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"Virtuoso" Quotes from Famous Books

... or practice. His remarks on this question are of great interest and value, and are strangely modern. He pleads that "experiments will be beneficial to our wits and writers." Alas! the wits at least benefited in a way which Sprat did anticipate. Shadwell in his 'Virtuoso' found material for profane merriment in some of the unquestionably absurd inquiries made or suggested by the natural philosophers. "Science was then only just emerging from the Mists of Superstition." Astrology and Alchemy still infected Astronomy, Chemistry, ...

— The Life and Times of John Wilkins • Patrick A. Wright-Henderson

... Savelli, the self-willed, temperamental daughter of an Italian violin virtuoso, furnished much of the interest of the book. The efforts of Grace and her chums to create in this girl a healthy, wholesome enjoyment for High School life, and her repudiation of their friendship, and subsequent attempts to revenge herself for fancied slights and insults, ...

— Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School - or The Parting of the Ways • Jessie Graham Flower

... "Yes, a shaving virtuoso; really a comical and strange character, and has oddities enough to compensate one for the debasement of talking with a ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... and six finger holes extemporized at the side. With this he sought the woods to emulate the trills and cadences of the song birds." Santa Claus's gift one year took the form of a small, yellow, one-keyed flute, on which simple instrument he would "practice with the passion of a virtuoso." Like Schumann, he organized an orchestra among his friends and young playmates. Simultaneously he was receiving his first initiation into the joy of literature. He would frequently retire from playing with his brother and other companions ...

— Sidney Lanier • Edwin Mims

... was not the property and was not the production of a single person, but of the community. The work of the individual endured only as long as its delivery lasted. He gained personal distinction only as a virtuoso. The permanent elements of what he presented, the material, the ideas, even the style and metre, already existed. 'The work of the singer was only a ripple in the stream of national poetry. Who can say how much the individual contributed to it, or where in his poetical recitation memory ...

— The Book of Old English Ballads • George Wharton Edwards

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