That calmness, Tóibín suggests, was her slow and steady artistic triumph over such familiar demons as emotional insecurity and alcoholism.
Without special effects or CGI, the story's steady cadence advances through Mason's triumphs, pain and confusion at a uniform speed.
Individual joys and sorrows, struggles and triumphs all unite under her steady gaze.
To the contrary, the build has been steady, and remarkable, for decades: a true British triumph of judgment and style.
His triumph was yet more evidence of the slow, steady but apparently unstoppable progress made in the two decades since Chris Boardman won Olympic gold in the Barcelona velodrome.
It's this steady progression that makes this new, two-disc album such an artistic triumph.
"Love" is a Wallenda-like feat; I held my breath, waiting to see if Rakoff could hold steady and make his way to safety, which he does in giddy, wistful triumph.
But despite the absence of anything that might resemble a commercial "triumph" in Gaddis's life, he did seem to enjoy his slow steady ascent into the light before he died from prostate cancer in 1998.
The events that brought Graham to that moment, and to a subsequent bittersweet triumph in New York, had huge consequences, including the marginalization of fundamentalists and the steady withering of the mainline denominations.
It was for several summers one of the most powerful county sides ever, and his steady batting, immaculate slip fielding and calm counsel brought much to his county's cause, through triumph, crisis and infighting.
