Yesterday, we highlighted a recent appearance that Pat Buchanan made on Washington Journal, in which he mocked and derided the efforts made by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to master the English language -- a mastery that seems to have been largely successful, given the arc of her professional career and the fact that she did, in fact, graduate atop her class at Princeton.
Check out George Carlin or Stewart Lee, who are rarely brief, yet demonstrate exquisite mastery of the English language.
But 100 years ago, Edith Wharton's drive, independence, wilfulness and autodidactic mastery of the English language were extraordinary, and I bashfully claim her as a kindred spirit.
As someone who took 50-odd years to get published, I was often dazzled by this young refugee's casual mastery of the English language.
Corbett said he had "a mastery of the English language".
Srinivasa Sastri was known for his mastery over the English language and his oratory.
His mastery over the English language was recognized by King George V, Winston Churchill, Lady Lytton and Lord Balfour who rated him amongst the five best English-language orators of the century.
I've never, ever, ever met someone in my life who has a mastery of the English language the way she does.
But Netanyahu and Oren's mastery of the English language cannot overcome the black eye to Israel's image that Foreign Minister Lieberman provides.
How is it that a man who is capable of writing so eloquently and with such mastery of the English language felt that "rape victim" needed to not only be modified by the word "innocent," but that "innocent" then needed to be defined?
