Kālidāsa's great forte is the portrayal of emotions ordinary enough in themselves (budding love, love consummated, rejection, despair, a father's love for his son)—but Kālidāsa applies to them a mastery of expression and image that makes the play a work of perennial beauty.
Casals himself attributed his mastery of expression to a divine talent, saying, "It comes from above" [4].
All who have been a co-author with, been edited by, or shared an educational venue with him have experienced a captivating creativity, mastery of expression, and improvement in one's own communication through his skills with the language.
His later influence on poets like Baudelaire and Paul Valéry is due to his mastery of sentimental expression, not, as they supposed, to his mastery of Neoclassic form.
Typically her hits were novelty songs, but her only jazz album, LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith (1958), revealed her mastery of drama, expression, and soul.
AICN singled out Staples' handling of grand, sweeping space shots and other genre trappings, as well as her mastery of facial expressions, which AICN felt was perfectly suited to Vaughan's subtle dialogue.
During the 16th century, Josquin gradually acquired the reputation as the greatest composer of the age, his mastery of technique and expression universally imitated and admired.
He presented the emaciated body of his St. Jerome (unfinished; begun 1480) in a sobering light, imbuing it with a realism that stemmed from his keen knowledge of anatomy; Leonardo's mastery of gesture and facial expression gave his Jerome an unrivalled expression of transfigured sorrow.
It is in these odd corners of the world one still finds the kind of quality of expression and mastery of form that Carter's art represents.
Toward the end of the decade, Neal Adams brought to comics a realist's mastery of anatomical detail, facial expression and gestural precision that caused a style revolution still seen in today's graphic novels.
Each member of that trio has now come within a hair's breadth of winning the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, which weighs mastery of tradition alongside individual expression.
