Brook's extraordinary mastery of theatres is evident in the idiosyncrasy of the casting and the directorial decisions taken here.
And in every image, a rapid-fire bit of calligraphy hangs crisply above the scene, like a disembodied neon light, testifying to an extraordinary mastery of the art.
Richard Taruskin points out that, although Mendelssohn produced works of extraordinary mastery at a very early age, he never outgrew his precocious youthful style.
Beyond the extraordinary mastery of his art and craft, what makes Alfonso a great director is that sustained vision of his (stubborn, but not foolish), subject to a deep spirituality and a curious, provocative and restless intellect.
Recalling the imperious flexibility of Helene Alexopoulos in "Monumentum pro Gesualdo" last season, and watching her boneless mastery of Peter Martins's extraordinary demands in "The Waltz Project" earlier this month, one looks forward to her future assignments as well.
But his mastery of the discipline is extraordinary from the point of view of western art.
And it's also why mastery of the technology confers extraordinary advantages on those who possess it.
Yet Cruz's extraordinary story-telling talent, along with a mastery of color, period and the sights, sounds, manners and passions of prewar Japan, allows Harry's run to hold us in a state of disbelief that is not just suspended but often bound and gagged.
How to defamiliarise the limited repertoire of sexual acts was never a problem for him, because of his extraordinary stylistic virtuosity, his metaphorical inventiveness and mastery of an entire thesaurus of other rhetorical devices, which make other novelists (this one anyway) gape in admiration and feel inadequate, whatever his subject.
The author's "extraordinary story-telling talent, along with a mastery of color, period and the sights, sounds, manners and passions of prewar Japan, allows Harry's run to hold us in a state of disbelief," Richard Eder wrote here in 2002.
But 100 years ago, Edith Wharton's drive, independence, wilfulness and autodidactic mastery of the English language were extraordinary, and I bashfully claim her as a kindred spirit.
