Sentence examples for mastery like from inspiring English sources

Her mastery, like Emily Dickinson's, has some awkwardness in it, some essential gawkiness that draws you close.

Facility and mastery – like celebrity — lead to a suspicion, among some, that what sounds perfect must come from a place that's slightly shallow.

Humanity's mastery, like God's omnipotence, includes the ability to redefine who or what counts as human and even to destroy itself.

Along with the perception that perfectly developed essays are essential is the sense among some parents and teachers that colleges have shifted from valuing balanced students who excel in several areas, like history and ice hockey, to demanding students who perform well across all subjects and have an area of "mastery," like squash or fencing, that showcases one's depth.

But what gets tested is what gets taught, and so we need 'Accountability 2.0.' All students should have digital portfolios to show evidence of mastery of skills like critical thinking and communication, which they build up right through K-12 and postsecondary.

When I first saw Amour, I wrote that Haneke's severity and mastery resounded like an orchestral chord – an idea which I now realise was indirectly inspired by the opening of the Schubert Impromptu being played in the opening scene's piano recital.

What we lose when we surrender so easily to the precocity model of talent selection is a range of important skills that mastery types like Cezanne, Fleetwood Mac and, yes, Hillary Clinton (and, again, maybe John McCain) bring to the party.

Renzi, who has demonstrated a Barack Obama-like mastery of social media, was using Instagram long before many US politicians.

Michael Sandel has argued that the quest for genetic enhancements and other god-like mastery over the human body reflects a failure to appreciate fully the "giftedness" of life and the ethical value of "humility, responsibility, and solidarity" (Sandel 2007 122 and 86).

There were no participants with only partial knowledge of gender-like subclasses along with full mastery of the case-like system.

Li proposes that li functions something like a cultural grammar where ren is like mastery of the culture.