Part of this image mastery is due to her upbringing as the daughter of a photographer, which led to a heightened awareness of image, cult of personality, and self-mythology.
Most men of a certain age measure themselves, in whole or in part, by their mastery of the essential manly skills: by knowing (or pretending to know) how to throw a curveball, blow a smoke ring, fudge an expense account, jump-start a dead battery and navigate so well that they can drive anywhere without asking for directions.
In fact, the Wari built their empire during a previous drought, thanks in part to their mastery of complex irrigation techniques.
From a pure design standpoint this is part of The Mark's mastery: Somehow managing to blend together the design and vibe required to appeal to a newly minted Russian oligarch, a fashion icon like Marc Jacobs, a tennis star like Novak Djokovic, and the Chanel-clad mother hens of the Upper East Side all at the same time in the same place.
Mastery as part of mental health is measured using the 7-item scale of Pearlin and Schooler [ 28].
For Aniston, whose comic gifts are hard to stifle, the mode is uneasy, and she seems constantly on the verge of breaking out; her technique involves a self-restraint that she imposes on herself, and that effortful self-mastery is part of what wins acclaim.
Much of the success of this part of the book springs from a mastery of point of view.
The technique, used while patients are awake, is called scripting or dream mastery and is part of imagery rehearsal therapy, which Dr. Krakow helped develop.
He would have been regarded as a Bruckner specialist then; now he conducts the symphonies as one part of his repertory, though with a mastery and understanding that few of his contemporaries can match.
But testing remained part of a dangerous game of technological mastery, scientific understanding, and military one-upmanship.
The ideal Confucian ruler saw the mastery of nature as part of humanity's triumph over barbarism.
