Sentence examples for forms of mastery from inspiring English sources
It was only possible once other forms of mastery had been established.
Mechanisms evolve for controlling tension while seeking means by which gratifications can be obtained, and these mechanisms develop into increasingly complex forms of mastery.
"It was a form of mastery for those individuals that hadn't previously been accessible to them without a lot of help from other people," she says.
It's as if the man with the glasses has some form of mastery of the world around him, and maybe even within himself.
Our appetite for Ian McEwan's form of mastery is a measure of our pleasure in fiction's parallax impact on our reading brains: his narratives hurry us feverishly forward, desperate for the revelation of (imaginary) secrets, and yet his sentences stop us cold to savor the air of another human being's (imaginary) consciousness.
Or even becoming humbled --because humility is a form of mastery, too -- by the city's vastness and recognizing the truth in what Eleanor Clark wrote about Rome 50 years ago: "You could start anywhere, it really doesn't matter, you will see so little anyway".
The Personalised System of Instruction is a form of mastery learning which, though it has been proven to be educationally effective, has never seriously challenged the dominant lecture-tutorial teaching method in higher education and has largely fallen into disuse.
Fashion is all about control — of the viewer's eye, of a client's body, of oneself — so good style becomes the highest form of self-mastery, the ability to control what of oneself the world is allowed to access.
He does this in Manderlay by implying not merely that America's white liberal condescension is just a new form of slave-mastery but also that black Americans are complicit in their own oppression.
The theme - race and slavery - could hardly be more delicate, and Von Trier implies not just that America's white liberal condescension is just a new form of slave-mastery but also that black Americans are complicit in their own oppression.
