Runaway is among her best collections and displays all of Munro's mastery: the effortless shifts in time, sometimes across decades; the ability to convey an entire life in a few pages; the exploration of complex truths in uncomplicated language.
The Canadian author Malcolm Gladwell famously argued that it's possible to achieve mastery in any task if you practise it for 10,000 hours.
Painted around 1333, with Lippo Memmi creating a gothic structure for his panel, he does not have the other artists' Renaissance mastery of perspective and depth.
Andy Bull Cycling offered many favourite moments: Bradley Wiggins speeding past Luis León Sánchez in the time trial, the women's pursuit team closing on the Americans in the final, Laura Trott's utter mastery of the elimination, the tears of Chris Hoy.
The narcissist defends against feelings of catastrophic failure by resorting to a fantasy of specialness, an illusion of mastery and control.
Because if there is no bad, how could good get mastery over the bad?" It is a binary, polarising outlook that recalls the tactics of another strongman leader, president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey.
The clip shows how, through a mastery of the science of ballet, a great dancer makes it her own.
Instead, he has taken a Callaghan-style approach to Cameron's mastery of political theatre.
You'd expect the possessor of a look like that to be an out-and-out comedy oddball, but it turns out that behind the beard is a more conventional kind of comic, albeit one whose instinctive mastery of his form immediately marks him out as one to watch.
Whenever I had the opportunity to see one I was impressed by his mastery.
Macdonald's mastery of structure and story, as well as his grace, sensitivity and insight, make him unique and, perhaps, even better than Chandler, according to many lovers of the genre and crime novelists.
