gain mastery

Where Bruce had to gain mastery over his rage trigger, Jennifer has full control over where and when she transforms into a 6-foot-7 glamazon because, she explains, women are obligated to control their anger all the time.

To create a human face out of marble is not just to immortalize it; it is to demonstrate an ambiguous need for submission to this god at the same time as attempting to gain mastery over it.

The mythology surrounding the blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson claims he sold his soul to the devil sometime in the 1930s in order to gain mastery over his instrument.

Instead, the study finds, most world champions sample one sport after another as children and gain mastery in their chosen activities considerably later than other, more focused young athletes whom they eventually go on to defeat.

One way to think about this is that, in the dominant strain of monetary economics, inflation expectations function a bit like the Force in Star Wars—the powerful, quasi-mystical energy that central bankers must gain mastery over in order to bring order to the universe.