But as Lester demonstrates through a wide-ranging reconstruction of the intellectual milieu of Renaissance humanism, Leonardo lived at a time when ancient texts commanded profound respect, and mastery of their nuances was considered an unequivocal sign of accomplishment.
So far as we are concerned, if the fault that we are underlings lies "not in our stars but in ourselves", we are surely capable, unless our national character has undergone some profound metamorphosis, of resuming mastery of our fate.
The outcome of this mastery is a profound sense of goodwill for our fellow human beings and our whole life system.
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.
There is more vivid involvement in the Juilliard accounts, but less accuracy; what is so extraordinary about the playing of the Ardittis is its technical mastery, allied with a profound understanding of how the music is built up.
Conrad has a remarkable ability to concisely frame a sentence, (that in itself can be profound), but when you combine Conrad's mastery of grammar with his themes, ideas and landscapes, his little novel is thick with "close writing".
But the control, the mastery of half-tones, and the profound seriousness of her playing of Schubert's chords, especially memorable in The Inn, was music-making of the highest order.
Indeed, the harnessing of fire by human societies represents one of the most profound changes in the ability of humans to achieve mastery and dominance over the natural world, increasing their safety and well-being.
This included the lovely evenness of the singer's light baritone, his controlled mastery of dynamic range and his unaffectedly profound colouring of text, as well as Huber's limpidly thoughtful piano playing.
The International Mathematical Union cited his creativity and technical mastery and said he has had "a profound influence" on the field of number theory, the study of the properties of whole numbers.
