Sentence examples for preserve mastery from inspiring English sources
The novelist Annie Dillard likens writing a book to keeping a feral beast that must be visited daily if the writer is to preserve mastery over it: "If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room".
Do we wish to control the uncontrollable, to preserve mastery over a natural process, over an eminently human moment that goes beyond the medical and which escapes our grasp?
Iverson then hit seven of eight free throws in the final 71 seconds to preserve the victory -- and the 76ers' road mastery.
The rationales for verse recitation were many and sometimes mutually contradictory: to foster a lifelong love of literature; to preserve the finest accomplishments in the language down the generations; to boost self-confidence through a mastery of elocution; to help purge the idioms and accents of lower-class speech; to strengthen the brain through exercise; and so forth.
He offers a résumé of the old reasons: "to foster a lifelong love of literature; to preserve the finest accomplishments in the language down the generations; to boost self-confidence through a mastery of elocution; to help purge the idioms and accents of lower-class speech; [and] to strengthen the brain through exercise".
He shows small signs of a continuous effort to retain discipline and control over himself, to keep the lid on the volcanic parts of his personality — as though he knew only too well that his self-mastery is not a final victory but merely a temporary advantage that he must always struggle to preserve.
While mastery of the three R's will likely enhance a student's prospects for success in life, becoming a safe driver will preserve life itself -- for the driver and the rest of us.
We cannot preserve everything.
Mr. Maliki, whose bland public persona belies his mastery of Iraq's zero-sum politics, will help decide if his nation preserves its fragile democracy or if it will return to one-man-one-party rule.
