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

Along with these two novels about acquiring or losing self-mastery, Tevis published 19 short stories between 1954 and 1963, many of them clever “what if?” tales, sometimes ending with an ironic Twilight Zone twist.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 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

She suddenly drew herself up, and gazed down upon her father; her sorrow was suppressed by the most absolute self-mastery; her lips scarce quivered.

From A Hero of the Pen by Werner, E.