How to Use virtuosic in a Sentence

virtuosic

adjective
  • The film's virtuosic visual style is as much a part of its legacy as its themes.
    — NBC News, 4 July 2021
  • And a lot of times that’s one of the benefits of not being virtuosic.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2026
  • To hear Lightfoot’s virtuosic work is to have been pierced by its beauty.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 2 May 2023
  • But there’s not enough going on behind the virtuosic smoke and mirrors.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The entire range of each instrument is employed in a virtuosic way.
    — James Bash | , oregonlive, 19 June 2023
  • Cameron Daly, of the legal department, played a virtuosic third base.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The way Fraser weaves it all together is virtuosic.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • And yet…Friedkin, for all his virtuosic kinesthetic vérité zap, was very much in thrall to the theater.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • For all that success, one of the most virtuosic cartoonists of the past century did not need to be front and center.
    — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a going-onstage element to big, virtuosic follow shots that go on for five or ten minutes.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 June 2024
  • Vernon Reid do his virtuosic postmodern thing on guitar each night.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 27 July 2021
  • Midkiff himself was on hand to perform the virtuosic solo line with proprietary ease.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • Both in his blindness and in his virtuosic skill, this master singer has often been seen as a self-portrait in miniature of Homer.
    — James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Tharp explores the idea of a hero in the experienced body of a virtuosic dancer, no longer young yet armed with a different kind of vibrancy.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Brace for another virtuosic profile of humanity at its worst and most mounded.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The media celebrates the big hit, the virtuosic defensive play and the strikeout, but so much of the real action comes between all that.
    — Alva Noë, WSJ, 18 July 2023
  • Chandler was known for his meticulousness, with virtuosic prose that distinguished him as a literary man in a mass-market genre.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Her breathtaking vocal tics — the epitome of sprezzatura — add virtuosic verve to the track’s lolling vintage groove.
    — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2022
  • Lin, 28, is a strength, a virtuosic musician who remains relatable.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Jimin, whose velvety voice and nearly feline lover-boy magnetism stands out even in a group filled with virtuosic singers and strong presences, shocked himself with his own solo success.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Dorrance, in a sustained and intriguing solo mostly viewed in profile, is a quirky, virtuosic dancer, and the reassuring heart of her work.
    — Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • Think of Isabelle Huppert’s most virtuosic performances, and there’s a common thread running through them.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 13 July 2022
  • To be able to please both factions of viewers is to be operating at a virtuosic level, as my colleague David Sims has written.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Bebop pianists, following the lead of Bud Powell, became known for their virtuosic flurries of notes.
    — Eric Grode, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Kavakos, who elsewhere on the program played with such beauty, was shockingly brusque and harsh in the second movement, with both performers fiercely virtuosic.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The virtuosic winger expressed no regrets about choosing the Kings as his landing spot after a clean breakup with the messy New York Rangers.
    — Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Much of the series is a showcase for Bandit’s virtuosic performances in his daughters’ imaginative schemes.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The virtuosic multi-hyphenate has risen to an international platform, and our cover was a victory lap after years of keeping up with her.
    — Samantha Allen, Them., 9 Dec. 2025
  • His drawing of a reclining nude male is virtuosic in the fineness of its line and the subtlety of shadow and light, and all the more so in it being rendered using chalk, soft and fussy at the best of times.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Phil is the primary channel for the story’s malevolence, which Cumberbatch stokes with virtuosic control.
    — New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021

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