Sentence examples for formal mastery from inspiring English sources

Its formal mastery earns it cultural power.

On both those tunes, the group stretched out, radically diverging from the recorded versions in a display of formal mastery.

Shiva Naipaul's work is animated by a mad, destructive comedy, which is near-perfectly orchestrated by formal mastery.

The films are well shot and neatly structured, suggesting a formal mastery that will come in handy in future commercial projects.

There's some nice stuff to look at in "Super 8," but the achievement is mainly J. J. Abrams paying tribute to Mr. Spielberg's formal mastery.

This is partly a matter of formal mastery: Wilbur has written the best blank verse of any American poet since Frost.

It is Russell Banks's mastery that achieves this unlikely goal, engaging us in a tale that is savage in its particulars but consistently elegant in its formal control.

The aesthetics of these photographs reside less in their formal or stylistic mastery and more in the artfulness of their subjects and environment.

"As set-up scenarios go, this could hardly be bettered," wrote Bert Wright in the Sunday Times, who admired Ryan's "mastery of formal architecture, of voice, character, and tone".

His mastery of formal composition, colour and detail have made him one of the pre-eminent European art photographers of our time, and he is best known for his large-scale cityscapes and his ongoing series of family portraits, many of which nod to Renaissance paintings.

The resulting volume, A Change of World (1951), reflected her mastery of the formal elements of poetry and her considerable restraint.