What is "mastery"

Usage examples of "mastery".

Rarely had Berwick seen a better-shaped coat, or a smarter beaver, or so complete a mastery of whip and ribbons, as he steered the pair at a good pace down the uneven street amid the fishcarts and country wagons.

Not for the first time she wondered what lay behind his decision to hold himself aloof from Gerard, given that his heroism and his mathematical prowess, to say nothing of his mastery of horology, could--if revealed to Gerard--have brought him nothing but honour and praise.

I often saw his tongue affected with fibrillar contractions as if the mastery of the hypoglossus were not as yet complete.

He had a cunning mastery of periphrasis, and a telling command of adverbs.

The informal dismount had not been taught by the Premio Chevallo charged with instructing him in equine mastery as a boy, but adopted as a time-saver by a vigorous, active young man.

The producer is not sufficiently aware that any artistic element in his list of productions that is allowed to go wild, that has not had full analysis, reanalysis, and final conservation, wastes his chance to attain supreme mastery.

In such discussions they worked out the names that ever since have been given to the masteries: finding, weather-working, changing, healing, summoning, patterning, naming, and the crafts of illusion, and the knowledge of the songs.

Her saddle seemed to spread invitingly into the most enchanting of all seats while her two handlebars, floating finely with the wild grace of alighting wings, beckoned to me to lend my mastery for free and joyful journeyings, the lightest of light running in the company of the swift ground winds to safe havens far away, the whir of the true front wheel in my ear as it spun perfectly beneath my clear eye and the strong fine back wheel with unadmired industry raising gentle dust on the dry roads.

It was this mastery of ships, unexcelled over most of Europe, which gave them such decisive advantages in their attacks upon so many coasts.

These stories are not directly derived from the beast-fable, altho his mastery of that literary pattern may have helped the author to find his final form.

Finally, the Colt autopistol will withstand the extensive shooting with full-power loads that most of us find necessary for practical mastery of a big-bore handgun.

Everything from Vedic mathematics, physics, geography, Ayurveda and the study of human physiognomy, cosmology, astronomy and astrology to military strategy, self-defense and hand-to-hand combat, mastery of weapons, engineering and architecture .

You whose devotion won the admiration of mighty Brahma himself, who saw fit to grant you the mastery of brahman, the force that created, sustains, and nourishes the universeI bow before you, great one.

Only twenty-seven, on the verge of doctorhood, Brian Okun felt mastery of his scholarly self.

Even whatever consciousness spoke from that future Dreamtime through Ralf seemed capable of only intermittent mastery when it came to manifestation in the here and now.