"I'm a pop commercial musician," he insisted, denying that he was a jazz artist, yet his instrumental power and mastery won him the widespread admiration of both modern and traditional jazz musicians.
And maybe that was it – what else did you need but the simple hard-won mastery of the film-maker's trade yoked to such solid talents as twinkling Bill Nighy and lovely Rachel Weisz and wily Michael Gambon!
She won accolades for her mastery of the aquatint process.
Nastia Liukin, the American gymnast who captured the gold medal in the women's all-around in Beijing, arguably owes that win to her mastery of the tap.
Accomplishment involves the pursuit of success, winning, achievement and mastery, both as end-goals and as processes.
By Macy Halford September 3, 2008 Louise Glück has won the Wallace Stevens Award for "mastery in the art of poetry".
Balanchine, by asking so much of his ballerinas, won for them great freedom and mastery, but, some nights, it seems that they traded something — shading, poignance — in the process.
Jackson, sometimes known as the "Zen Master" for his mastery of mental discipline, won a combined 11 NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers between 1991 and 2010.
It was not just that they won; it was how they won, with mastery and a miracle, leaving the Patriots in despair and millions to parse the difference between destiny and opportunity.
American poet Sharon Olds has won the $100,000£75,00000) Wallace Stevens award for her "proven mastery in the art of poetry".
He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values" – but Churchill's real passion lay in painting.
