Bishop is a talented and intelligent storyteller with a masterful command of language, and The Other Side of the World deserves to make many a book prize shortlist.
And when she's / threw she feels she's dayd," wrote the young Wallace, in a piece which Goldberg says is "already exhibiting the masterful grasp of language for which he would later become famous".
His masterful command of language.
He has been masterful at manipulating language in order to suit the political aspirations of his presidency, whether it's been selling the country on war in Iraq, on warrantless surveillance, on maintaining a rosy outlook during dire economic times, or most infamously, co-opting the Nazi era phrase "Verschärfte Vernehmung," or "enhanced interrogation," in order to justify his torture regime.
This sort of language is masterful in the hands of Armando Ianucci, but here it often falls with a thud.
True enough, but if you aren't masterful in your own language you are at an enormous disadvantage socially, cognitively and economically.
Cumming has a masterful command of the language, making it clear and comfortable on the ear as he subtly shifts register from character to character.
His five volumes of Symbolist verse Sögur og kvaedi (1897; "Stories and Poems"), Hafblik (1906; "Smooth Seas"), Hrannir (1913; "Waves"), Vogar (1921; "Billows"), Hvammar (1930; "Grass Hollows")—show a masterful command of the language and the influence of his extensive travels, and they exemplify his patriotism, mysticism, and love of nature.
In atheistic moral discourse, a masterful user of the language can say 'it is not true that God has commanded φ-ing, but φ-ing is nonetheless obligatory'; in Judeo-Christian moral discourse, on Adams' view, one shows oneself to be either unintelligible or not a masterful user of moral language if one were to speak thus.
I was spell-bound by the masterful mix of powerful language, bravura performances and staging that made it one of my most excellent nights of theater ever.
