In fact, we are practically masters of brainstorming.
About a dozen artists participated, creating large, often sprawling abstract sculptures in humble materials dirt, rocks, tree branches, used clothes, rope, burlap, industrial detritus putatively to counter the sterility of consumer culture, but also, more practically, to master the capacious exhibition spaces that were becoming an international norm.
Forgive me for what I'm about to say, but in an age where our attention spans are shrinking and we've found we can master practically any skill after a measly li'l hour on YouTube, who are we to ignore the call of our untapped possibilities?
This season is so much more effective that it's practically a master class in how tweaks can transform a series — and in how hard it is to judge a sitcom early on.
In the same paragraph, he writes that there is hardly much of a market for literary for literary fiction and practically no master of fine arts programs.
There has been no shortage of strong-shouldered silhouettes on the runway this season (see Dolce & Gabbana and Prada for starters), but Anthony Vaccarello's latest collection for Saint Laurent was so full of sharp lines from shoulder to shin it was practically a master class in fashion geometry.
The "trial of the century" practically invented reality TV, and the personal-turned-public would be an art mastered by his ex and their children, whose lives would be turned into an inescapable empire.
Outplaying Nadal on Spanish clay is like mastering Rembrandt in Dutch oils, practically enough to throw the earth off its axis.
When Sir Robert Walpole was hoovering up practically every old master that came on the market in the mid-18th century, it wasn't only about bolstering his political clout (well beyond his means, which is why Catherine the Great was able to get almost the whole lot for the Hermitage a generation later).
It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire".
Mastering the "dream feed" where you both are practically asleep and lying down is one of the greatest gifts a nursing mother can give herself.
