Sentence examples for a master of a difficult from inspiring English sources

Among country and bluegrass musicians, Mr. Martin is regarded as a master of a difficult five-fingered playing style known as clawhammer or frailing, in which the instrument's strings are pushed down by fingernails, rather than pulled up with picks.

He drew like an angel, and was undoubtedly a master of the difficult watercolor medium.

But he was also a compelling performer and a master of the difficult art of making jazz accessible without watering it down.

She is a master of "difficult women" – from the self-obsessed Donna (when her kebab is stolen, she compares the violation to the murder of an old lady) to Sharon, and now Divorce's Frances, who cheats on her husband with a literary professor.

One name that is conspicuously absent from the contents page of the "Best American Travel Writing" collection is that of Mike Tidwell, whose new book, IN THE MOUNTAINS OF HEAVEN: Tales of Adventure on Six Continents (Lyons Press, $24.95), confirms him as a master of that humble but difficult genre, the Sunday newspaper travel article.

He is a master of his craft, and it was difficult not to do a little dance in my living room when the Booker Prize was announced.

Singer was a master of so many modes that it is difficult to think of him as a single writer — as befits an artist who used multiple pseudonyms and whose stand-in characters have multiple lovers and sometimes even multiple wives.

And the Mahler Sixth Symphony, on Sunday, is of special interest to a listener who has, on at least one occasion with the New York Philharmonic, found Mr. Boulez a consummate master of this difficult score.

Networking ends up being a science, and unless you are willing to take on this difficult task and become a master of it, your job search will languish.

Powell was a master of urban observation.

• INSIDE TRACK: A master of understatement.