But didn't insecure adolescent David think you'd grow up into mature mastery of the world?
Five Bells: XX Poems (1939) and Poems (1957) demonstrate the poet's mature mastery of technique.
Of the eight works in which his mature mastery is so clearly revealed, all but one were composed after 1824.
Kirk doesn't acquire that mature mastery that enables him to sit through battles without putting on a seatbelt until he's evicted as a mutineer by Spock and lands on the frozen planet Delta Vega.
Haydn's Die Schöpfung (1798; The Creation) shows the impact of Handel's oratorios and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas, fusing these epic and dramatic elements with Haydn's own mature mastery of symphonic style to make the work a masterpiece.
The twenties, possibly alone among the middle decades of life, are passionately celebrated in fiction and memoirs, and the celebrations tend to share a style that is personal, specific, cliquish, pastiched, breathless, often bibulous, and flagrantly confessional the voice of early mastery without mature constraint, self-discovery at a moment when each revelation seems unique.
The twenties, possibly alone among the middle decades of life, are passionately celebrated in fiction and memoirs, and the celebrations tend to share a style that is personal, specific, cliquish, pastiched, breathless, often bibulous, and flagrantly confessional — the voice of early mastery without mature constraint, self-discovery at a moment when each revelation seems unique.
While the technical mastery of his mature comedies leaves one gasping, The Two Gentlemen has a kind of guileless transparency; it lets us in on its secrets.
The coarseness of his subjects contrasts with the delicacy of his style, which in its mature stage shows an unusual mastery of tonal values.
The part of the self that is capable of mature love hinges on this mastery.
"Idomeneo" was Mozart's eureka moment, and if it isn't quite "Le Nozze di Figaro," "Don Giovanni" or "Die Zauberflöte," it is a mature work that shows Mozart's mastery of the aria as an encapsulation of emotional depth, and of orchestration as a means to create an atmosphere and even, at times, suggest the scenery.
