Cables is an exalted member of that thinning clan, a mainstream master who negotiates the demanding strategies of hard bop with élan.
True, it hardly amounts to research into spiritual realities (whatever that means), but Taylor hints obligingly at a time in which secularism's "hegemony of the mainstream master narrative" could be over (a great elucidator of Hegel, Taylor doesn't so much turn a phrase as let it curdle in philosophical jargon).
Processing loans rapidly is not a trick mainstream banks have mastered.
The mainstream-media "puppet masters," he said, want to "smuggle their dangerous ideas across the open borders of your mind.
You can't train mainstream Americans to master the understanding of Hispanic cultural nuances that may decide the success or failure of a product or brand launch into the Hispanic marketplace.
But will it have any effect on the wider market for historic pictures, particularly since the "Salvator Mundi" was not offered in a mainstream sale of old masters, but, incongruously, in an evening auction of contemporary art?
Because it's the world in miniature, because they have become the masters of mainstream entertainment, and because they have made the Internet, the United States will remain the pole of reference and will continue to speak to the entire world [tout le monde — everybody].
Zemeckis's last movie, Flight, proved that the master of mainstream spectacle behind the likes of Back to the Future, Cast Away and Forrest Gump could also capably manage gritty drama.
That's right, the mainstream Jamaican R&B renegade master with the cornrows from the early 2000s is making a comeback.
Reviewing "Riding the Rap" for The New York Times Book Review in 1995, Martin Amis cited Mr. Leonard's "gifts — of ear and eye, of timing and phrasing — that even the most indolent and snobbish masters of the mainstream must vigorously covet".
