gain mastery
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Employees are encouraged to gain mastery over what Kier Eagan describes as the Four Tempers: Woe, Frolic, Dread and Malice.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025
"Without such fantasies, the child fails to get to know his monster better, nor is he given suggestions as to how he may gain mastery over it," Bettelheim wrote in the study.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2020
Procedures are typically created, nurtured, and perfected in a few hospitals, and they spread as the apprentices gain mastery, move to new places, and promulgate their know-how: see one, do one, teach one.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
CBT’s implied promise is that there’s a relatively simple, step-by-step way to gain mastery over suffering.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2016
Need I encourage men to fight who have staked their existence to gain mastery?
From The Last Generation A Story of the Future by James Elroy Flecker
