Sentence examples for perfect mastery from inspiring English sources

Quiet and deliberation were Chardin's essential ingredients, combined with a perfect mastery of abstract form.

Austen, Lewes argued, was "the greatest artist that has ever written, using the term to signify the most perfect mastery over the means to her end".

Humble artisans are depicted, who, through the perfect mastery of their craft, exemplify for their social superiors the art of mastering life.

The trajectory that exists from Chardin to Cezanne and Matisse, who both revered him, derives from this perfect mastery of abstract form pared down.

In Camões a profound Classical education combined with perfect mastery of poetic technique and a lifetime of varied experience to produce in sonnets, eclogues, odes, elegies, and canções (songs) the greatest poetry of the Portuguese language.

The pupils read, reread, and commented on the Classical authors and imitated them by composing certain kinds of exercises (dictiones) with the aim of achieving a perfect mastery of their style.

He walks quickly, jokes a lot without smiling much, and, as readers of his books know, has a pitch-perfect mastery of urban speech in all its varieties.

O.K., a guy on skis just glided by my window, and, judging by Twitter, people still find varied ways to take in a winter storm — lamenting the delay of their package from Sephora, using the white stuff to chill their beer, perfecting mastery of the Assassin's Creed II video game, even shoveling.

Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

It is a scene in which complete mastery of technique makes technique vanish: as perfect as any two pages might hope to be.

What followed was pure mastery.