No matter how many times she may have played the piece, Mutter continues to bring to it a commanding mastery of its considerable technical difficulties, and a clear and individual expressive intent that transcends the notes while never ignoring their importance or specificity.
What we lose when we surrender so easily to the precocity model of talent selection is a range of important skills that mastery types like Cezanne, Fleetwood Mac and, yes, Hillary Clinton (and, again, maybe John McCain) bring to the party.
Would bring to the job: Foreign policy experience at the highest levels of government, including as deputy national security adviser in the Clinton administration, where he earned a reputation for boundless energy and a mastery of subjects.
In Philadelphia a local version of the Chippendale style was brought to the highest mastery by such craftsmen as Thomas Affleck, Jonathan Gostelowe, Benjamin Randolph, and William Savery.
Mr. Rostenkowski, who was reared by the Chicago Democratic political machine, brought to Congress a mastery of the game of legislation with its premium on brokering, bluffing, and figuring out the compromise that gives the little required but gets a bit more in return.
The hard stone, usually diorite, is carved with obvious mastery and brought to a fine finish.
Toward the end of the decade, Neal Adams brought to comics a realist's mastery of anatomical detail, facial expression and gestural precision that caused a style revolution still seen in today's graphic novels.
Respighi learned his orchestration from Rimsky-Korsakov, and the unique combination of technical mastery and childlike wonder that he brought to his instrumentation became the basis of his still-persuasive style.
The critic — who, like Adam, achieves mastery over the world in part by naming it — brings to the jungle an impulse of order, an urge to taxonomize.
No one could deny his phenomenal keyboard mastery, the almost machine-like control of articulation, and the range of touch and colour he brought to a repertoire that extended from Byrd to Schoenberg.
PUPPET MASTERY If you're a fan of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, you've probably wondered how those amazing puppets are created and brought to life.
