Sentence examples for act of mastery from inspiring English sources

It was what came of a life's preparation: an act of mastery that began with self-mastery.

He trailed a dog and its walker into the lobby, catching the swinging door before it clicked shut, one last act of mastery of the mechanics of outward existence, and then passed out in a melting pool on the tile just inside.

The Spender entrants spend thousands of hours creating their translations, small acts of mastery of the chaos all around us.

For me, what DuVernay does is show King's act as something else: an act of Zen mastery, a refusal not merely of violence, but of the gloating display of triumph.

There are several incongruities in the way the British edition of Legend of a Suicide has been published – packaged between whimsical covers that present Vann's jagged, desperate act of existential mastery as if it were a flight of magical realism, describing his howl in the dark as a "tender story of loss, survival and disillusioned love".

I was pretty surprised at the lack of mastery.

The Greek terms are akrasia ("incontinence"; literally: "lack of mastery") and enkrateia ("continence"; literally "mastery").

But the promise of an in-out referendum, far from being an act of great political mastery, could prove to be Cameron's career-defining error.

In a world of increasing demands on our time and attention, our comfort zones act as predictable spaces of mastery where we can seek refuge when the stress becomes too much.

Originating in the beloved Edwardian convention of the gentleman burglar, these have always been the aristocratic cousins to the implicitly populist bandit genre, since their point is to let us luxuriate in the elegant ploys of suave types who act out our fantasies of mastery.

In this way, the death penalty acts out a phantasm of mastery over one's own death.