In the classic bondage novel written in 1954 by the French author Anne Desclos under the name Pauline Réage, a beautiful, young fashion photographer agrees to be the slave of a powerful master who turns her into "a mannequin of perversion," as The Times's 1966 review said.
Meanwhile, the son, Albrecht, goes from roaming at will with his best friend, Fritz, through their town and its pastoral surroundings, "all-powerful masters of the world," as Albrecht thinks of it, to noticing with alarm the country's rapid disintegration and his family's worsening situation.
Mr. Moses, the powerful master planner, had long talked of building a highway on Fire Island, the slender, 32-mile-long barrier beach on Long Island's South Shore.
While his lingering power may be a threat, he could also be extremely useful to the new ruler as a powerful orator and master of alliances adept at balancing the country's ethnic and regional needs.
This powerful "master algorithm" is at the heart of work postulated by Pedro Domingos, author of The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World.
Generic systematic methods are employed, supported by intensive use of computer simulation as a powerful tool for mastering the complexity of physical models.
I am thankful to Stephen Schwarzman, of the Blackstone Group, for being the first financier to take the Taxing Pledge, promising to declare future earnings as personal income rather than as carried interest, effectively doubling his federal tax liabilities on an entirely voluntary basis and setting a powerful example for other masters of the universe to emulate.
Because it is so powerful, mastering Csound can take a good deal of time and effort.
The World Trade Organisation, which convened last week's conference, was once regularly targeted by protesters as the secretive, all-powerful puppet master of global capitalism.
Filling out the disk is a powerful interpretation (with the master cellist Heinrich Schiff) of the compellingly eclectic Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (1989-96) by Friedrich Cerha, the doyen of contemporary Viennese composers.
Still lean and graceful, Kaká is powerful yet almost balletic, a genuine master of his craft.
