This case is sprawling — the Justice Department intends to present 519 exhibits already — and much of the case will hinge on technical legal minutia.
As long as legislative debates hinge on technical issues such as maximizing efficiency or ensuring liquidity, the Wall Street banks and their lawyers and lobbyists will hold an advantage over congressional staffers.
On the other hand, David Shrigley's funny, absurdly rudimentary etchings — one depicts a stick figure crushed under a giant, Minimalist cube, while two companions helplessly look on — prove that technical mastery alone is not enough.
From cyber risk to climate change, how we build resilience depends as much on our technical mastery of risk, as it does on the micro-level choices of individual adaptation.
Without truncating them on a Procrustean bed of technical mastery, she finds a singularly cinematic tone with which to yield to them, to yield herself up to them.
"It is a piece of technical mastery".
But the kind of technical mastery cherished by the New Formalists may too easily foster a taste for emotional mastery.
Kim Yu-na won the women's figure-skating title with a blend of technical mastery and, above all, refined artistic sensibility that made it difficult to believe she was a teenager with the weight of South Korea on her bare shoulders.
In my opinion, besides technical mastery, being multidimensional is important.
One hinges on technical expertise; the other, emotional competencies that come with time and maturity--including negotiation with peers, building support for change, patience, and empathy.
It helps, of course, that Snow White was based on a German folk tale, but the technical mastery of the film is reportedly what Hitler most admired.
