In his book The Audacity of Hope, Obama recalls that he once wrote an article for Time Magazine in which he said: "In Lincoln's rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat – in all this, he reminded me just... of my own struggles".
"In Lincoln's rise from poverty", Mr Obama wrote in Time in 2005, "his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat in all this, he reminded me…of my own struggles," prompting Peggy Noonan, a conservative commentator, to quip that Mr Obama is "like Abraham Lincoln, only sort of better".
Survivals of archaic notions concerning the compelling effect of renunciation which the Confucians sanctified as ritual "deference" (rang)—are echoed in the recommendation to "hold to the role of the female," with an eye to the ultimate mastery that comes of passivity.
One persists because the interface is so elegant, and because ultimate mastery is so compelling and offers the player the experience of gifted performance.
Last, ultimate, finis, end-of-the-line.
In the three beginner courses now posted on Codecademy, some of the lessons could be written with more clarity, and while there are short-term goals (points) and ultimate goals (mastery of your own destiny), you can't, or don't, build anything that interesting yet.
It had been billed as a clash of Ronaldo, the ultimate individualist, and Vicente Del Bosque's finely tuned orchestra - Ronaldo against Spain, Real Madrid against Barcelona, individual brilliance against the collective mastery of the defending world and European champions.
Few claim mastery of the labyrinth.
Hillary Clinton left no doubt of her mastery of the subject.
It was a demonstration of their mastery of the style.
