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

This indictment is ultimately a spiritual one: of obsessive consumption, and freedom defined as escape from restraint rather than self-mastery.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2020

It is in vain that we preach freedom to men who have not this self-mastery; as the poet tell us: "The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, slaves of their own compulsion."

From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton