But this brilliant lucidity and mastery of dialogue was "quite unsuited to the stage".
His juvenilia is precociously brilliant; he achieves mastery early, declines early, and by the end of his short, alcoholic life is writing material that damages rather than enhances his reputation.
James Joyce's subtle yet frank portrayal of human nature, coupled with his mastery of language and brilliant development of new literary forms, made him one of the most commanding influences on novelists of the 20th century.
Her playing was technically brilliant, lively and characterful, imbued with a sense of mastery and commitment.
He is brilliant at strategy as well as tactics: he has mastery of the opening, the middle game, the endgame.
That honour was principally to do with his fight against Hitler and the Nazis, and the citation saluted both his mastery of historical and biographical description, and his brilliant defence of "exalted human values".
Then try to find a copy of Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire (University of North Carolina Press), a brilliant discussion of the terribly frank diary of Thomas Thistlewood, a slave owner in 18th-century Jamaica.
You did a brilliant interview: you told your prospective employer all about yourself, your mastery of social media and how your generation brings a new perspective to the workplace.
There are drafts of speeches that are mapped out like poetry, a sample of Churchill's amateur landscape painting, his Nobel Prize in Literature from 1953 "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory".
Kennedy's public identity as a roué denied him his expected course to the White House, but it also obscured his absolute mastery of the political process: Ted Kennedy is at bottom a brilliant Irish pol, who skillfully employs the sledgehammer or collegial accommodation as needed, and whose goals are achieved at an astonishingly high rate.
