Sentence examples for acts of mastery from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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".

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.

For Blanca these acts of thievery represent a mastery of fear, and we find ourselves applauding crimes that pave the way toward a much graver one.

The sense of mastery was found to act as a mediator between uncertainty and anxiety, whereas uncertainty was a good predictor of boundary ambiguity.

If a person fits one's role and acts properly based on social guidance, he or she can feel more self-esteem and a sense of mastery over life [ 43, 44].

Every form of mastery involves some boredom.

The methodical approach reflects one of the themes of "Mastery".