Sentence examples for supreme mastery from inspiring English sources

"Abstract painting," which dates from that year, bears witness to the artist's supreme mastery at using intense color in bold combinations.

His life and his work both rose to a pitch of supreme mastery, from which the ground was suddenly pulled away.

And if he, with his supreme mastery of television, can't do that, what hope is there for a media mortal like Al Gore?

Among his Latin pieces two in particular are often cited as demonstrations of Tallis's supreme mastery of the art of counterpoint: the seven-part Miserere nostri, an extraordinary feat of canonic writing, involving retrograde movement together with several degrees of augmentation; and the famous 40-part Spem in alium, considered a unique monument in English music.

We grasp anew the supreme mastery and imagination of Greek artists of the sixth and fifth century B.C. in, for example, the goofy glee of two nude males leaping to the accompaniment of a double flute, the grave sensuality of strigil-wielding nude women gathered around a basin, and the oddly unsettling sight of an athlete feeding the accumulated residue from his strigil to a happy dog.

That this speech occurs a scant two weeks before Israelis go to the polls is, for Netanyahu, the "icing on the cake" since it will display for voters back home his supreme mastery of America.

For a packed Royal Festival Hall, which accorded him a prolonged, affectionate standing ovation last Sunday, Brendel certainly shared the 'supreme mastery' honours with his beloved Mozart, on whom he has lavished special attention in these last few years of his wide-ranging career.

Oratory was the supreme political skill, on whose mastery power depended.

While Adams calls Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard her idols, her style owes more to the modern mastery of Floyd Mayweather Jr: technically supreme, elusive, and blessed with a natural flair for movement.

Few foreign writers have successfully taken on the English language in adulthood, and those who spring to mind -- Conrad, Nabokov -- are supreme stylists, whose conversion implied a willed mastery.

Her worship is prescribed to acquire supernatural powers, especially gaining control over enemies, attracting people to oneself, acquiring mastery over the arts and gaining supreme knowledge.