self-mastery
Example Sentences
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Devin’s bark is indicative of the endless hours working at self-mastery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
Researchers have found that toddlers who are read to become children who are "more likely to enjoy strong relationships, sharper focus, and greater emotional resilience and self-mastery."
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2021
For both men, expeditions are tests, as much internal as external, and they’re eager to see what can be found at the outer boundaries of their self-mastery.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 24, 2020
Celia also taught her daughter to control unproductive emotions, such as anger, through relentless self-mastery: “Be a lady,” she frequently exhorted.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2018
Her voice wavers so distressingly that he thinks she is about to lose all control over it; but no!—in a moment she has recovered her self-mastery, and taken up her thread again.
From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton
