The phrase "a complete mastering of" is not correct in standard English.
The correct form would be "a complete mastery of."
Example: "Achieving a complete mastery of the subject requires dedication and practice."
Alternatives: "a thorough understanding of" or "an extensive knowledge of."
The Workers Partyy, with only a minority in both houses of Congress, is not a complete master of the public agenda.
"And inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too," he said.
The reason was that "inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too".
Gedda was an unforgettably poetic Lensky in Tchaikovsky's Yevgeny Onegin, a noble Lohengrin, a romantic young lover in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, lovelorn in the title role of Massenet's Werther, an ebullient Riccardo in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera – and a complete master of the lighter idioms of Offenbach, Johann Strauss and Lehár, as his long list of EMI's recordings in that genre demonstrate.
It is a lamentable fact that he never completed his autobiography, to be titled How Many Of You Are There In The Quartet? Joe Morello was a complete master of the time signature games and was one of the most gifted small group drummers of the time, thoughlosing his sight was a great handicap to him.
6), his large-scale concert music for strings and winds (such as the Water Music and the Fireworks Music), and the massive double concertos and organ concertos all show him to have been a complete master of the orchestral means at his command.
He was also described in his obituary in The Times as having "once more showed himself a complete master of his profession, equally effective and esteemed in the class-room and the pulpit, in the School House of Dr. Arnold, and on the playing fields".
But, of course, he does indeed play them, and the very notion of performing on instruments on which he's less than a complete master is a conceptual act of a high order.
If you only own the original studio release of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" (recorded on December 9 , 1964 and issued in February , 1965, then the new three-disk release "A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters" of the classic album by Coltrane's classic quartet will be a revelatory experience.
But his performance seems set on showing us that underneath that bland, slightly dull exterior there was a … well, let's just say he seems the complete master of his personality.
