He conducted here from memory, conveying utter confidence and mastery for the duration of the 73-minute performance.
Because, to my eyes and ears, both live performances show her at her absolute peak of power, confidence, relaxed mastery and, of course, physical beauty.
Last week, that world centered on solving the Jets' protection problems, on executing plays with confidence and mastery, on prepping Sanchez for Buffalo in the most important game of the season.
The White Ribbon has an absolute confidence and mastery of its own cinematic language, and the performances Haneke elicits from his first-rate cast, particularly the children, are eerily perfect.
While watching the singer Nicole Henry go through her paces at Feinstein's at Loews Regency on Tuesday evening, I had the sense of being in the presence of a pop-soul superwoman whose every gesture and inflection conveyed confidence and mastery.
When I first watched "People Are Becoming Clouds," I was startled not just by its confidence and mastery of tone but by its happenstance echoes of another film I'd written about for the Screening Room series, Oscar Sharp's "The Kármán Line," which, I will say without spoiling anything it's wonderful, and worth watching with fresh eyes has similarities both narrative and atmospheric.
It is now conventional wisdom that high states of anxiety among test-takers are connected to low confidence in mastery of tested material.
In a MakerSpace, we simultaneously guided and watched our students grow in their confidence and mastery of capabilities such as teamwork and communication, which are crucial to collaboration and in demand by employers.
For students to learn to adapt requires motivation and self-confidence via autonomy, mastery and purpose: Autonomy means that students learn how to learn, perform, do research on their own without seeking instructions or guidance.
The rationales for verse recitation were many and sometimes mutually contradictory: to foster a lifelong love of literature; to preserve the finest accomplishments in the language down the generations; to boost self-confidence through a mastery of elocution; to help purge the idioms and accents of lower-class speech; to strengthen the brain through exercise; and so forth.
