Now Clio Barnard has shown her own mastery of the form with an outstanding new film, a contemporary reworking of the story by Oscar Wilde.
In fact, he goes so far as to say that "the British overlords" were "as it were, trapped in their own mastery of a single viewpoint".Mr Bell also excels as a philosopher or, more exactly, as a definitionist.
In a black shirt and gray pants, his dreadlocks tied back, Glover's rangy body responds to Coltrane's music, plays with it, allowing it to sweep him along but also asserting his own mastery.
But the calls for Ginsburg to go underestimate both her own particular skills, which can't be replicated by a random Obama replacement, as well as her own mastery of the current political terrain.
For a man claiming to be god, Sathya Sai Baba was oddly enthusiastic about science; perhaps it had something to do with his own mastery of the laws of physics.
He's had 50 years in politics to perfect the art of presenting incompatible positions as perfectly congruous, and with the exception of Peter Mandelson I can't think of any politician whose delight in his own mastery of the art is more palpable, or more languid.
After a lucrative period during which he became recognized as one of the greatest figures in this new kind of music, Morton began traveling the country, first to learn what styles were emerging in different areas and then to show off his own mastery.
Let feminism, then, be the place in our culture that asks everyone, women and men, to recognise the failure of the present dispensation – its stiff-backed control, its ruthless belief in its own mastery, its doomed attempt to bring the uncertainty of the world to heel.
The VP did a fine job of describing his own mastery of the issues, and he spoke with flair and style, which certainly helps.
He exposes al-Harizi's ignorance of philosophy and highlights his own mastery of the subject matter of the Guide and sensitivity to the difficulties of translation.
