The calmness combined with the mask's ability gave him an unprecedented level of power and mastery over the stones. |
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And the free market is a useful servant, but when it claims total mastery over human life, we know what the consequences are. |
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The development of agriculture allowed for our increasing mastery over nature. |
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Every inhabitant of the city, however great or humble, seeks to achieve some measure of mastery over it. |
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Those are the people that want to control you and have mastery over the way that you think. |
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Narcissism and narcissistic identification both involve phantasies of power, omnipotence, mastery and control. |
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His clarion tone and beautiful phrasing were a model of superb instrumental control and mastery. |
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Only one other of his bloodline had ever tried to gain mastery over the artifact, and had been condemned for his impertinence. |
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Complete mastery of the body includes what appear to be very painful exercises pursued apparently without pain. |
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The organization of the chapters, sections and subsections is exemplary and clearly reflects her mastery of the topics. |
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Your sculpted physique and mastery of seductive poetry is simply overwhelming. |
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A careening assertion of mastery and virtuosity, the Goldberg Variations were for many years thought unplayably difficult. |
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The basic objective behind the learning of Arabic literature is to earn efficiency, mastery and command over Arabic. |
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The great Classical works depend in part on the mastery of orchestration they display. |
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There is a mastery at work that elevates it from yet another crime caper to something almost operatic in scope. |
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Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg and, most especially, Warhol rose to greatness through their mastery of serigraphy. |
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His mastery was in describing exciting events and in catching the flavor of the moment. |
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Gerber's handling of rhythm especially impresses me, with a mastery of the phrase against the meter. |
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What Pound did in this text was to construct a Well-Tempered Prosody to exercise his mastery of metrics and diction. |
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Study of these works should not be attempted, nor can mastery be achieved, without consistent and disciplined use of the metronome. |
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Besides mastery of composition, pathos, touchingness and power of affecting are also found in them. |
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The mastery of each instrument and the cohesion and beauty of the orchestra was a transport of delight for this audience. |
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For at the core of mastery internal to ethics is always the power to decide who dies and who does not. |
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Helen's mastery of translation flowed from several converging sources that made her unique. |
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The obvious mastery of the keyboard and soaring vocals soon give her command of stage and audience. |
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His mastery over the craft of cinema is evidenced in the manner he has tightly woven the narrative, which in this case is a non-linear one. |
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His writing is unquestionably an authentic representation of black street life, especially his mastery of ghetto vernacular. |
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The development of western civilization is predicated on the ambition to achieve mastery over nature and to manipulate it unrestrictedly. |
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The work was evidently intended to be a special monument to the unexcelled graphic mastery of its author. |
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He played the instrument with great mastery, making with it music that was normally impossible with either the sitar or the guitar. |
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Hess's blowing opens confidently as he demonstrates his speedy technical mastery. |
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Merit badges for comic-book appreciation and videogames mastery go right next to each other on the double-knit XXL sash of the Nerd Scouts. |
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He had started his quest with no mastery of the act of observing a scene and translating it onto paper. |
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When Gates speaks about winning he means WINNING, the whole enchilada, mastery of the universe. |
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Her poetry displays an adroit mastery of simple language and an eye for the fine threads woven into ordinary lives. |
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She brought absolute mastery and compelling musical adventurousness to one of the most difficult works in the repertoire. |
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It may enable trainees to experience enactive mastery from doing the things they originally feared. |
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The graceful instrumental invention illustrates Strauss's mastery in writing for wind instruments. |
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She watched the pair intently, impeccable mastery of her emotions leaving her features completely blank. |
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The work exhibits an eclectic mastery of all styles, from show tunes to gangsta to jazz to soul to funk to pop. |
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He is seated on a tiger skin, a symbol of power, showing his mastery over the animal world. |
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The development of lacemaking is based on the mastery of other textile handicrafts, primarily weaving and embroidery. |
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Far from being proof of children's linguistic inadequacy, analogy is a demonstration of their mastery of the core rules of English morphology. |
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Business, technology, and entrepreneurship skills, incorporating enactive mastery components, should be topics for continuing education programs. |
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Warne's mastery over the art of leg spin is unrivalled and even the worst of his detractors is forced to stand up and applaud his wizardry. |
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The abstract representations are also a reflection of the artist's mastery over colour and light. |
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Mackenzie has a sure, visual touch and a mastery of cinematic language, at least in embryo. |
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Indeed, an artist's skill may to some extent have consisted precisely in the mastery of a variety of pictorial modes and languages. |
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This new music transposer and educational tool is designed to enhance students' mastery of music theory. |
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With only a rudimentary education in Afrikaans they are denied access to a functional mastery of English. |
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But most of the record showcases Gainsbourg's mastery of mood, atmosphere and orchestral innovation. |
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He has succeeded in showing us that he is a difficult man, but that needed no great mastery. |
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Both books' protagonists become epic heroes in part because their technical mastery allows them to manipulate mass consumer networks. |
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This is because they favour a reactive risk model rather than a proactive mastery model. |
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Young Sarah regaled us with her mastery of the somersault while generously sharing her various toys and books with us. |
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He changed from the cudgel to the rapier, and achieved a rare mastery at it. |
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What made him great was not his mastery of technique, but the strength of his vision. |
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His mastery of vocal manipulation allowed him to pitch his voice like a frail old man from Texas. |
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Just as they have long craved mastery of reverse swing, so England have coveted a mystery spinner. |
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His mastery of vocal manipulation allowed him to pitch his voice like a frail old man from Texas who was promoting his new self-help book. |
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His portraits are incredible feats of mastery and the hardest of his constant commissions. |
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This 1972 short serves as a worthy testament to Larkin's endless imagination and mastery of movement and composition. |
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We may miss the chance to master a martial art because our time is limited and mastery comes from practice. |
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But on the whole, in the ancient world, mastery over nature was not a plausible goal of inquiry. |
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Their enthusiastic presentation demonstrated their mastery of the subject and of the skills necessary to execute their projects. |
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Then, you'll be able to convert that knowledge into the total mastery of your machine. |
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Yet, accomplished mastery of all the knowledge and techniques important to preaching may not make the preacher successful. |
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The multiple-choice questions do not give the opportunity for the student to convey his mastery on the subject. |
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You resolve business and professional matters effortlessly with mastery and expertise. |
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Aside from having total mastery over all things pointless, he's also a real cut-up of a comedian! |
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You can move people from the basic level of just knowing how to do something to real mastery of the subject. |
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Thus, additional practice and greater skill mastery is recommended in preparation for night diving activities. |
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A good article requires mastery of the subject and research, so does lecturing. |
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It also calls for questions that test the mastery of specific knowledge, skill, or ability statements. |
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Over a number of crucial commands he has displayed technical mastery and an exceptional ability to command and lead effectively. |
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It would be good if there were more people with real mastery of other subjects. |
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Yet mastery of some knowledge and the art of control is the secret of success. |
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This demonstrates how dichotomous scoring cannot reward students for less than full knowledge or mastery of the content area. |
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It's purity and balanced design reveals Gill's mastery and understanding of classic letterforms. |
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His quest for knowledge and mastery extends beyond the proper way to run a slant pattern, although he could tell you that, step by step. |
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Our professional mastery of aerospace power, our knowledge and doctrine create an advantage that is not easily eroded. |
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I have discovered it is the lack of mastery of these important subjects that tends to haunt a student throughout musical study. |
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By using this example, I do not mean to suggest that mastery of technical skill is not important, only that it is not sufficient. |
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A craftsman must be master of his tools, and mastery is impossible without intimate knowledge. |
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The audience responded the way it would to any foreigner, whose mastery of the language could be restricted to the pleasantries. |
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Have you truly achieved mastery of your instrument if you cannot play it by ear? |
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He has no mastery of the Brackish language, but he knows a challenge when he hears one. |
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It is in the early years that languages can most easily be learned, and the mastery of a second language makes that of a third even easier. |
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The requirement that you prove your mastery of the Bulgarian language has, as reported in The Sofia Echo some time ago, been removed. |
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The mastery of at least two languages as well as the mother tongue is essential to secure the future of British society. |
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As children gain mastery in real skills, they should take pride in their accomplishments. |
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The imperative that man exercise mastery over technical development is facilely accepted by everyone. |
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The primary focus of the sessions is to increase the mastery of the English language. |
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In this scenario, your mastery of the English language will do you no good. |
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Its new rendition emphasized equity through English language mastery and transitional bilingual education. |
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The scene is significant because it points up the connection between mastery of language and mastery of social situation. |
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As children gain mastery over language skills, they become more sophisticated in their conversational abilities. |
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Yet to become a qualified working member of staff at an international conference, mastery of foreign languages is far from enough. |
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For all that talk of intellectual mastery, there is another dimension that we're not in control of, and we neglect it at our peril. |
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Of course, before you can get cracking on a second dialect, it helps if you've achieved some level of mastery of your first language. |
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Bach's contrapuntal mastery finds voice in Brahms's repeated use of fugue and passacaglia forms. |
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Thus, these are terms applied to the geographic extent of achieving zero incidence, not to the degree of our mastery over the pathogen. |
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The third section tells how one gains mastery over natural forces through thought control. |
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The reason, argue two recent books, is that the developed world's technical mastery over water has led to a false sense of security. |
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His mastery of cadence often lends his poems a dreamy, song-like quality. |
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In the midst of his engagement with the concerns of the community, he gave attention to the mastery of physical skills and literary accomplishment. |
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The high street purchases will reinforce perception of Kate's mastery of the common touch. |
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In addition, mastery of the subject does not imply a memorization of ready-made formulas or methodological recommendations, but rather a logical understanding of the material. |
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Perlman fairly sailed through these andantinos and caprices, using each one to showcase yet another aspect of his extraordinary mastery of the instrument. |
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In Schubert's music, the Viennese lilt and nuance in the phrasing, touch, singing line and overall style, even the pauses and silences, require complete mastery. |
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In a lyrically crafted homily, he displayed his mastery of words to criticize the world's major nations for presiding over the destruction of the environment. |
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Iris Van Herpen and Delphine Manivet each have a technical mastery that falls within the luxurious customs of haute couture. |
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Their claim to consideration rested on their expertise, their mastery, and the title magister became the sufficient indication of their authority. |
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One thing though, I'd never before so personally perceived nature's absolute mastery at using the unwitting collaboration of its sapient members to mimic its fungal elements. |
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Hilary Mantel has redefined the genre of historical fiction and her mastery of the novel form is magnificent. |
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This wide-ranging mastery allows her to describe different schools of thought and research methods with a true distillation rather than simplification. |
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Highly respected for her mastery of the French repertoire, she launched into Wagner as if to the manner born, diction and dynamics perfect and every note impeccably placed. |
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In most battles, the rounds focus on battlers tearing each other down or hyping their own mastery of battle skills. |
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This narrative voice challenges our desire for mastery of knowledge. |
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Not all these capacities depend on one's mastery of a language. |
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For one so young, her mastery over this archaic tongue was surprising. |
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Her mastery of his language was better than his mastery of hers. |
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A discipline and some mastery over one's own mood are indispensable. |
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Achieve mastery over your body by identifying with your soul. |
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The practice of Yoga is more or less physical in nature, through chanting, breathing and other exercises one tries to achieve physical mastery over the body. |
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The show coasted on sheer mastery of compas, the rhythmic measure that defines all flamenco, and on the charisma of the artists probing the art's dark and light moods. |
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In addition, the students' self-assessments revealed how they perceived their mastery of the competencies the faculty had established as desirable outcomes. |
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Craning his neck like some tomfool who doesn't know quite what he's doing, he denies, even as he asserts, his mastery of the psychological dynamics of his art. |
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Here, the founder of the law and literature movement shows his mastery in bringing literature to philosophical bloom. |
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Their greatest virtue is their uncluttered directness, their fluid mastery of well-researched detail. |
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But his uninhibitedness also takes the form of sheer stylistic bravura, the dazzling facility, note-spinning mastery and heedless creative enthusiasm of the Russian. |
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On the other hand, it was admirable to see the way he soaked himself in England, and acquired a perfect mastery of English, even if his English remained a little stiff. |
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He had had enough of this Dutch mastery and plowed through the Dutch and banged in a lightening strike as the Dutch goalkeeper was beaten all ends up. |
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They had many powers, but their strongest mastery was in sorcery. |
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Althoff's paintings are eerily beautiful, displaying delicate mastery of line, color and form, while their subjects veer toward the strange and macabre. |
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We found that treatment based on performance mastery produces higher, more generalized, and stronger efficacy expectations than treatment based on vicarious experience alone. |
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One important component of successful language learning is the mastery of idiomatic forms of expression, including idioms, collocations, and sentence frames. |
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The objectification of nature in science and technology looks like mastery of nature but in fact it only demonstrates our impotence in the face of nature. |
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Lavishness of decoration, mastery of execution, expansion of palettes with mixed colours are some of the characteristics of Assam's manuscript paintings. |
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Cutting loose from the unsung genius is, however, his only chance at real fulfillment, real love, real mastery, transient and imperfect as they are. |
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His works have covered many different styles from impressionism to his own take on the classical style, and all reflect his mastery of the medium. |
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Scaffolding should be removed gradually as students begin to demonstrate mastery and then no longer provided when students can perform the task independently. |
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A show of this range can create an intoxicating sense of mastery, fostering the illusion that one can drink in the essence of a century during an afternoon. |
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Dining here also requires some small mastery of the Cyrillic alphabet and at least a tenuous grasp of Bulgarian, because the languages in use are Bulgarian and Turkish. |
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Local performer Gerry Grennan provided the pre-interval entertainment, providing some much welcome humour as well as some outstanding dextrous guitar mastery. |
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The approach that concentrates on non-Euclidean geometry is ideal for students who already have a mastery of Euclidean geometry, but it cannot replace such a mastery. |
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Children also need to touch and explore things to gain mastery and may find it difficult to sit still or stay in one place long enough to participate in talk therapy. |
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A nice man with a mastery of doublethink, perhaps, but you really believed that he didn't grasp the negative implications of his own political strategies. |
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As Shakespeare's mastery grew, he gave his characters clearer and more varied motivations and distinctive patterns of speech. |
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The contents show Byrd's mastery of a wide variety of keyboard forms, though liturgical compositions based on plainsong are not represented. |
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An incidental pleasure is his witty mastery of the scare quote and the square bracket. |
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Hodgson in which he describes his mastery of the Portuguese language, consisting mainly of swearing and insults. |
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However, in the 18th century, due to their mastery of shipping and commerce, a wealthy and dispersed Greek merchant class arose. |
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His skill as an orator, which was praised by his good friend Pliny, no doubt contributes to his supreme mastery of the Latin language. |
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Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. |
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It is said that Mount Iizuna, from the Nagano Prefecture, got its name due to how the gods gave people mastery of this technique from there. |
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Technological advancement and mastery of iron metallurgy was achieved during this period of peaceful settlements. |
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On one end of a sort of linguistic continuum, one may define multilingualism as complete competence and mastery in another language. |
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If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops. |
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However, the two systems measure mastery of different sets of skills and any comparison can be subjective and therefore meaningless. |
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First, the positive association between working long hours and mastery is reduced to nonsignificance with the inclusion of job resources. |
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The basis of the grant is moving from student seat time to student mastery,'' he said. |
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Our schools have taken great strides in personalizing learning for every child, making mastery the goal rather than seat time. |
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Yet within a month of their marriage, Samuel Ayer asserted mastery of her feelings. |
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The CUA credential validates mastery of the basic principles of user-centered design. |
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The additional teaching sessions above and beyond mastery are an example of a maintenance strategy called overlearning. |
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The fun of twitch games comes from the mastery of a difficult dexterity challenge. |
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His lack of mastery of the social graces made it obvious he had not been raised in upper-class society. |
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He was famous from the start of his career for his voice and his mastery of Shakespearean verse. |
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Critics recognised the mastery of the piece despite the defects in performance. |
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The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties. |
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Everyone fought in these rough and tumbles for the mastery of what was to become one of the world's largest industries. |
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He acquired a mastery of his trade with his own method of calculating costs and materials, which he could never successfully explain to others. |
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The most influential source of self-efficacy is enactive mastery experiences. |
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At five-foot-eight-inches tall, he isn't a stereotypical hoopster, but he demonstrated that persistence is the key to mastery of any skill. |
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Quietly angry, beautiful and poppy, it showcases the band's mastery of sound, with the album by turns sparse, luxuriant and squelchy. |
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Along with the mastery of gunpowder, waterpower provided European countries worldwide military leadership from the 15th century. |
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When faced with a false friend, memorization and repetition are the keys to mastery. |
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Monastic in its rigour and plainness, the new museum embodies a mastery of light and materials that seeks to reconnect with the elementality of art and nature. |
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With her mastery of crime fiction and psychological thriller-writing, Ruth Rendell was undoubtedly the queen of not just the who-dunnit but the whydunnit. |
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Britain had the greatest industrial capacity in Europe, and its mastery of the seas allowed it to build up considerable economic strength through trade. |
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While multiple rabbis were credited with having created golems, they were always made for secular purposes, typically to demonstrate mastery of ancient mystical texts. |
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He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits. |
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In order to reduce the aversiveness of the restudy, they instituted a conditional pass when the answer did not quite meet mastery criteria, but was close. |
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In his novel Misery, Stephen King poses a rich collection of Maugham's books in the house where most of the plot is set, incidentally praising his mastery of storytelling. |
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A further shared prejudice is the dualistic opposition between either victimization or total freedom, total inarticulation or consummate mastery of language. |
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All this suggests a deeper penetration and mastery of the art of systematic theology, done now interdenominationally and, in that environment, in a mutually correcting way. |
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The western models of negotiations overemphasise due diligence and mastery of the substance and underemphasise the behavioural dimension of the negotiation. |
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These derive from a deep understanding of what is relevant to physics and astronomy, and especially from a mastery of wholly new mathematical techniques. |
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Coleman, now 58, was also inspired not only by the bebop jazz of Charlie Parker but also by the funk mastery of James Brown's lead altoist Maceo Parker. |
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Holbein's chalk and ink portraits demonstrate his mastery of outline. |
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To the amusement of the spectators, ace freestyle footballers, Jesus Gomez of Spain, Peter Kovas from Hungary and Japanese Nori demonstrated their mastery with the ball. |
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Art can connote a sense of trained ability or mastery of a medium. |
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Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. |
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For the seventh year in a row, celebrated artist Alex Soldier, known for his mastery of precious miniatures, has created an objet d'art to symbolize the Princess Grace Awards. |
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This was not that he had a bad command of captains but rather that British mastery of the seas was so complete that few enemy ships dared to sail. |
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