Sentence examples for command of the medium from inspiring English sources

His command of the Medium Lie is indeed breathtaking.

A colossus of world cinema, Ingmar Bergman influenced a generation of film-makers who were inspired both by his effortless command of the medium and his high-minded sense of its moral and artistic possibilities.

"The Discreet Charm" belongs to both his old age and his second childhood: it combines a masterly command of the medium with a mischievous, anarchic sense of imaginative freedom.

Artists usually employ watercolour to produce only delicate, transparent effects, but Marin's brilliant command of the medium enabled him to render the monumental power of New York and the relentless surge of the sea on the Maine coast.

But Mr. Mendonça, a former film critic whose command of the medium is both formidable and subtle, is up to something more than the usual upstairs-downstairs comedy of colliding destinies in a small place.

I have come to think of Klee as an exemplary artistic figure, facing outwards into the world and not painfully contemplative of the self, drawing mastery not just from his command of the medium, but from the struggles to control his tools.

When Miss Nerina has developed a musical phrase to equal her command of the physical medium, we shall all be fighting to drink Champagne out of her slippers".

The director's command of his medium is spellbinding, and Melissa Mathison's screenplay is nearly flawless: with minimal dialogue, the movie expresses a range of emotions that will be accessible to the youngest children and resonant to even the most jaded adults.

Conley arrives at the paddock in fine command of his medium, as frisky and playful as a colt, and he treats his readers to a lively ride.

In the meantime, the frame enlargements from "Too Much Johnson" that have been released suggest a young filmmaker — Welles was all of 23 at the time — with a striking command of his medium.

By now the artist has such a command of his medium that his most ambitious work, "Cobb," is also his most successful.