mastery

The Constitution is a “liberty document,” and he was responding to a view of the Constitution that saw it as written by powerful men to embody a theory of power and mastery.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

"These engravings are organized and consistent, and show mastery of geometric relationships," Ferrara explains.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

Just one study in pop-music mastery after another.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

The Michelin Guide awards up to three stars to eateries based on ingredient quality, flavour mastery, cooking technique, chef's personality and consistency.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Sometimes you think a view from above will give you a sense of mastery and power; then it turns out it just makes you realize how small your life really has been.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

The late William James, as some readers may remember, placed musical pleasure between sentimental love and sea-sickness as phenomena unaccountable by any value for human survival, in fact masteries, if not paradoxes, of evolution.

From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Vernon Lee

Stars lit new pages for him; seas Revealed the depths their waves were screening; The ebbs gave up their masteries, The tidal flows confessed their meaning.

From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by La Salle Corbell Pickett

But this is but to try masteries with fortune.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon

Fuller, speaking of the swash-bucklers, or bullies, of Queen Elizabeth's time, says, 'West Smithfield was formerly called Ruffian's Hall, where such men usually met, casually or otherwise, to try masteries with sword or buckler.

From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott

To this rough salutation the Duke of Lancaster replied, "He shall keep such masteries here, though you say nay."

From Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I by Anonymous