Sentence examples for complete mastery of the from inspiring English sources

His unique adaptation of raga forms for the flute reflect his complete mastery of the idiom.

The matador must now perform dangerously close passes with the bull to prove complete mastery of the animal.

His first famous portrait of Vera Mamontova Girl with Peaches (1887)—displays his complete mastery of the Impressionist idiom.

Now that natural selection had given way to humanity's "complete mastery of the globe," as Grant wrote in 1909, his generation had "the responsibility of saying what forms of life shall be preserved".

Susie Harries's Nikolaus Pevsner (Chatto) may justly be subtitled "The Life": it shows a complete mastery of the many different areas, cultural, political and artistic, in which this complex and essential figure moved and made his mark.

When you watch, say, Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" or "The General" by Buster Keaton, you are aware of such complete mastery of the emotional and narrative possibilities of cinema that color and sound seem like so much distraction and filigree.

Parks has complete mastery of this device, switching styles with the abrupt fluidity of a martial artist switching handholds.

Whatever his conclusions, Sérgio and his men had complete mastery of this day at least.

Complete mastery of this exercise is being able to sprint while shooting and hitting your target on the first try.

Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs".

This can be surprisingly difficult, considering that impossible people have complete mastery of shifting the blame.