Pool swimming is a spectacle of perfection, with each competitor alone in a lane, exhibiting peak mastery of one of the sport's four strokes — backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, or freestyle.
Because, to my eyes and ears, both live performances show her at her absolute peak of power, confidence, relaxed mastery and, of course, physical beauty.
Researchers surmised that while stresses about money and children are at a peak, so are competence and a sense of mastery.
He was at the peak of his creative powers and his mastery of Hollywood star power (a path smoothed by Gabriella Forte, a former Armani executive, and Wanda McDaniel, the company's longtime celebrity wrangler), even as he was coping with the death, in 1985, of Sergio Galeotti, his partner and co-founder.
Every form of mastery involves some boredom.
The methodical approach reflects one of the themes of "Mastery".
"There is this moment of mastery that descends," he offers.
But the era of "mastery" seems gone for good.
I was pretty surprised at the lack of mastery.
For "Madame Bovary," hers is the level of mastery required.
It was what came of a life's preparation: an act of mastery that began with self-mastery.
