| 单词 | mastery |
| 例句 | Millions of Soviets were avidly following the progress of the match, fascinated by Fischer’s mastery. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One reason why technology tends to catalyze itself is that advances depend upon previous mastery of simpler problems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Longer would have required the mastery of some formidable tantric art. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But, unlike Adams, Madison's mastery of his own passions took the form of total suppression. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Their rapacity for mastery had been so great that all were brought to destruction equally. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z For he believed that the message of the dreams was a summons, and that the hour had come at last when the heir of Elendil should come forth and strive with Sauron for the mastery. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Do not reveal your mastery over glamour. Do not reveal all that you can do. Show your power by appearing powerless. That is what I need from you.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z What had rescued Jesse was the camaraderie of the Geek Club, one sympathetic teacher, a sense of mastery from his computing skills, and the ability to talk with his sister and mother. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He switched off the ignition and turned with what he hoped would be taken for a gesture of surety, of casual mastery toward Emma Lee. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That required the mastery of a very special skill set. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was largely because of this mastery of phosphorus that Sweden became, and remains, a leading producer of matches. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z "One must come first. Art Corin's elder by full twenty minutes. And his better too, let's hope, though that's no great mastery." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “Hemme!” the Chancellor snapped.Then he turned to me, “I’m afraid proof of mastery requires more than a simple sympathetic binding.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It is important to understand where the particular mastery of that moment comes from. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Then, his voice changing, he said, “I asked you where he was, Sergeant, I didn’t ask for you to practice your mastery of the English language.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If at the heart of rhetoric is the ability to position oneself in regard to an audience, their exchange demonstrates Satan’s mastery. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Your convincing victory at Reykjavik is eloquent witness to your complete mastery of the world’s most difficult and challenging game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For instance, Native American societies became renowned for their mastery of horses, and in some cases of cattle and sheepherding, in parts of the Great Plains, the western United States, and the Argentine pampas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Any message we receive from them is likely to begin "Dear Sire," and congratulate us on the handsomeness of our horses and our mastery of whale oil. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Humans aren’t the only creatures to seek mastery and rebel at being mastered. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert—in anything,” writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The Lady of O cried out with pleasure, and bent her shining head to the young sorcerer in praise of his mastery. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Everything rested upon the brain busters’ mastery of the laws of physics and mathematics. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But the unconscious mastery of language that is our birthright as humans is not enough to allow us to write good sentences. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Mathematics in this view is cut-and-dried and calls for nothing so much as mastery of the requisite algorithms, and unlimited patience. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was something I could feel as much as I felt his balls of excrement in my hand: mastery in the making. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “All in favor of admitting first-term student Kvothe’s reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of the basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And now that she was doing something difficult and familiar and never quite predictable, namely lying, she felt a sort of mastery again, the same sense of complexity and control that the alethiometer gave her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The Count saw his victory in my bow, and his mastery in the trouble of my face, for he began at once to use them, but in his own smooth, resistless way:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He goes on at length about the mastery of it, and says he gathered there is no rhyme or reason to its itinerary, but expresses his hope that it will come to Germany. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She played with Siddhartha for a long time, repulsed him, overwhelmed him, conquered him, rejoiced at her mastery, until he was overcome and lay exhausted at her side. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Cressen's fingers went to the chain about his neck, each link forged from a different metal, each symbolizing his mastery of another branch of learning; the maester's collar, mark of his order. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Well, he is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z At Garfield High the priority was calculus, where a student’s mastery could potentially lead to an academic scholarship and a career in computer science or engineering. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I found it hard to believe they were made of flesh and blood as I watched them display complete mastery over the racket and the tennis ball. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered how many other clerks there were upstairs, and whether they all claimed to have the same detrimental mastery of their fellow-creatures. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you, lady and gent. Now, behold the mastery of the master!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Koios, and me, and the two of you. Kronos promised us mastery of the four corners of the earth for helping with the murder.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Guides to English grammar were written as pedagogical steppingstones to mastery of Latin grammar, and they tried to shoehorn English constructions into the categories designed for Latin. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We flew Frightful every day just for the pleasure of lying on our backs in the meadow and watching her mastery of the sky. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He is demonstrating, to me, his mastery of the world. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The galaxy belonged to them, and as terror was communicated to our children, I saw mastery communicated to theirs. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Not the way we wanted it to. But my mom sure enjoyed my newfound mastery of Spanish cuisine. I also know some obscure historical trivia about Spain, the Spanish Armada, and, for some reason, Spaniels.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z They would have died for him—for his mastery. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The dawn, the sea-dawn and the mastery of ordered flight, were of such intense beauty that the boy was moved to sing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His life’s major achievement was the mastery of all games and how quickly he beat them. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Her mastery of camera angles and lighting, too, is rare in an individual of her age. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once into the mystery and mastery of power. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Why not think of it instead as a form of pleasurable mastery, like cooking or photography? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One mastery, and only one, could he hold over the dragon. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Wizards speak truth, and it was true that all the mastery of Names that Ged had toiled to win that year was the mere start of what he must go on learning all his life. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It was an art, and like all arts it demanded mastery, discipline, study. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Did the hyena sense something of my mastery? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Very glad he was to learn this lore, for without it no mere rote-learning of charms and spells will give a man true mastery. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Churchill’s mastery was the product of determined hard work. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z What I eventually saw was that he never intended to know each live body in the district, his purpose wasn’t statistical mastery, although that certainly happened. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Dürer’s map illustrates how rapidly the notion of the Earth as a globe established itself after the publication of Waldseemuller’s map in 1507; it also demonstrates Dürer’s complete mastery of perspective representation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And sometimes his right hand would creep to his breast, clutching, and then slowly, as the will recovered mastery, it would be withdrawn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Now a look of pure, unholy joy appeared in the black-currant eyes, and he tensed his stocky, close-knit body, timing his spring with a mastery born of long practice. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z To Collins, Bobby represented a second existence—the boy’s career was a vicarious entry to a level of chess mastery he himself would never achieve. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As his argument gains momentum, he begins to regain mastery of his tongue. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The steady, persistent mastery of math required more courage and endurance than that one night had demanded—more than he could muster on his own. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to deepen my experience, achieve as much mastery as I could in the time I had. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Vermeer’s mastery of light’s expressive qualities elevates his concern for the reality of appearance to the level of poetry and subsumes its visual and symbolic possibilities. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And like all specialized human traits, some people have much more mastery over this reflex than others. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as he sought mastery over the press, Howard was its servant. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s about the appearance of mastery, not actual mastery. Why cable news networks could use a reality check 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z He also made one-shoulder tunics the color of bleached bones, with pleats spilling across the front and an air of mastery. Fashion Review: Lanvin Says Take Your Pick; Dior Joins the Navy 2010-10-02T00:05:00Z My heart in hidingStirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing. Poem of the week: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins 2010-04-05T09:00:00Z Ford’s mastery of fiction extends to his gift for interior monologue and human speech. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Scorsese, by contrast, is the consummate industrial artist, whose vast inspirations are inseparable from his mastery of the elaborate techniques—and the administrative and bureaucratic complexities—that come with making major studio films. Review: Jonas Mekas’s Illuminating Documentary of Martin Scorsese on the Set of “The Departed” 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z But he remembers it less as a capture of her mastery than as a point of departure — a glimpse of a youthful perfectionism that he has seen soften in service of constant growth. Midori’s career started with a fleeting moment. It’s evolved into a lasting legacy. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z It's as if Martinoty concluded that any creativity in the staging would be a distraction from the musical and verbal mastery of this fantastic operatic duo. Mozart opera in Vienna is a mixed bag 2011-02-22T13:30:08Z For Anonymous 4, stylistic mastery of this remote music is second nature. Breathing life into 700-year-old music 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Her perfect mastery of the family estate Hartfield expresses itself everywhere. Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z No matter how well we talk the talk of technological mastery and rationality, there are crazy parts of us that remain beyond the reach of language to explain or resolve. ‘Force Majeure,’ a Dark Swedish Comedy 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z As its name implies, the student ensemble, directed by David Ludwig, specializes in contemporary music, so its mastery of Ms. Tower’s relatively conservative idiom was no surprise. Music Review: Joan Tower Is Showcased at Miller Theater 2014-04-20T20:29:13Z Here, as throughout the evening, I was drawn to Taylor’s mastery of emphasis. Paul Taylor’s vintage works and classic joys 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Most photorealist painters focus on urban tableaux whose hard, glossy surfaces allow the artists to demonstrate mastery of reflected light and refracted views. In the galleries: Brave new worlds and fantastic heroines 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z There is enough range just in the first movement to show off lyrical sensitivity, technical mastery and syncopated jive. Review: Slatkin, Thibaudet take Seattle Symphony audiences on a jazzy jaunt 2011-04-22T17:02:03Z But you cannot resist Gould’s mastery of orchestration, keen ear for harmony and ability to fold myriad styles into his own voice. Music Review: Baltimore and Albany Symphonies at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T21:11:30Z The trompe l’oeil artist amplifies the illusion through the choice of subjects and the mastery of brushwork, light effects, foreshortening and other techniques. Review | Two rarely seen paintings offer a peek into the very private world of Paul and Bunny Mellon 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z From an early point, Mr. Camnitzer made clear that for him art was not about claiming mastery of a medium or refining an identifiable style. Art Review: In the Beginning Was the Word 2011-02-16T13:00:07Z She was self-taught, and in the span of just a little more than a decade, went from competence to mastery, and not just mastery. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z In every aspect of technique — from the smoky colors and the bustling, off-center compositions to the architecture of the story and the emotional precision of the performances — this film is a work of absolute mastery. | 'A Brighter Summer Day': ?A Brighter Summer Day,? by Edward Yang - Review 2011-11-24T21:00:30Z A bite of baby bok choy showcases Langhorne’s mastery of the technique. Feel the char, not the burn: It heightens flavors, and here’s how to do it right 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z There’s cruelty in Theon, and there’s decency, but there’s not enough Theon inside him to decide which is his true nature and to get mastery of himself. Game of Thrones Watch: I Capture the Castle 2012-05-07T10:10:45Z It is a dizzying collage of tones and styles that Scott pulls together with mastery and confidence. First He Imagined a Town Founded by Rebel Slaves. Now He’s Exploring the Lives There. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z We said: "People might be drawn to Everything Everything for their refusal to sound obvious, but they will stay for this band's mastery of the basics: grooves and feeling." Mercury prize shortlist 2011: what Guardian and Observer critics said 2011-07-19T13:07:52Z For all the accolades he received over the years — including a Jazz Masters award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2004 — Mr. Hall never took his mastery of the guitar for granted. Jim Hall, Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83 2013-12-11T03:50:57Z After all, we as professors are, in effect, judging students' mastery of a subject and assigning them a grade. Perspective | Miss Manners: Part-time professor’s students show insufficient deference 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The persuasive genius of Frederick Douglass, of Abraham Lincoln, of Ida B. Wells, of Cesar Chavez, sprang from a mastery of this language, and a perception of its application to a previously unimaginable future. Obama and the Collapse of Our Common American Language 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z “All Is Lost” is at once an epic of individual survival and a fable of how the recklessness of the privileged can be mistaken for mastery, with disastrous consequences. 'A Most Violent Year,’ With Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Russell seemed all too happy to accept these composers as masters, and then, in his turn, to demonstrate what their mastery had released in him. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z More than the sex and violence Park is known for, “Little Drummer Girl” shows the director’s mastery of visual composition and order. Park Chan-wook Brings His Art-House Eye to ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The title song pays homage to Mr. Moranis’s mother and her mastery of one particular dish. A Word With: Rick Moranis: Live Blogging the Bris? This Might Hurt a Bit 2013-06-18T21:05:35Z The trajectory he describes for Churchill — hit-or-miss exploration, mastery of the political moment, eventual loss of zeitgeist — is normal for every political career. Was Churchill a Great Man? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z His mastery of complex geometries is where his virtuosity is most evident. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Opens Season With Gala 2014-05-09T23:25:13Z What’s more, as he retreated from the world, his writing grew increasingly solipsistic and hermetic, his mastery of the vernacular giving way to more and more abstract language. Books of The Times: A Biography From David Shields and Shane Salerno 2013-08-25T21:13:01Z "The judges this year noted her even greater mastery of method now, her powerful realism in the separation of past and present and the vivid depiction of English character and landscape." Man Booker 2012: Shortlist at a glance 2012-09-11T15:43:40Z Inside the game, he achieved a kind of mastery he never felt in the real world. Review: ‘One of Us,’ by Asne Seierstad, on Anders Breivik’s Rampage in Norway 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z “Abstract painting,” which dates from that year, bears witness to the artist’s supreme mastery at using intense color in bold combinations. Art: Gerhard Richter, Grand Master of Our Time 2011-10-28T12:00:09Z Mr. Lubovitch has been choreographing for 42 years, and his lush outpourings of movement demonstrate a mastery of construction and craft that is always worth watching. The Week Ahead: NOV. 21 ? 27 2010-11-20T19:34:00Z It's not a dichotomy, she told me, just a shift in emphasis toward the importance of mastery and effort and away from scores. Motherlode Blog: Why Some Students Believe They Have to Cheat (and How to Teach Them Not to) 2012-10-03T20:31:12Z Dilla shows his mastery of making roughneck, properly heavy music sound beautifully planed. J Dilla: the Mozart of hip-hop 2011-01-27T22:15:00Z But it is actually her mastery of dynamic range and sustained line that advances her so prominently in that repertory. Sondra Radvanovsky triumphs in dynamic recital 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z So doing, Rembrandt also celebrates his mastery of more intuitive, physical, less descriptive ways of using paint. Art Review: ?Rembrandt at Work? at Metropolitan Museum 2012-04-05T22:11:33Z I would love to say I made huge strides, but this was not the case — once a week wasn’t enough for mastery. My trapeze-flying adventure: Better than an orgasm 2013-03-16T20:00:00Z On his Instagram account, he embodies the “work hard, play hard” ethos, ruthlessly converting leisure time into opportunities for technical mastery. The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z But at Disney Hall, under the enthusiastic and commanding baton of Gustavo Dudamel, the music’s tempos were freer; the dense textures, more clearly defined; the mastery of craft, impossible to miss. Review: Thomas Adès Charts a Journey Through Hell and Heaven 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Elgar commands a mixture of harmonic mastery and originality, with a very unusual rhetoric and emotional palette. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z But what comedy to think how the writers and critics who loved her labored to get her mastery treated as majesty when she’s so evidently supreme. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Performance goals are goals oriented toward seeking positive evaluations and avoiding negative ones, but learning goals focus on a desire for mastery and understanding of new skills. You only hate grad school because you think you’re supposed to 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z His mastery of form made him a poet, as in a piece that I knew from hearsay and wrote about, for The Village Voice, in 1981: The Danger Artist 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z In “Clytie,” dated 1814, the nuances of light when mountains and clouds merge into a haze faintly touched with pale gold and salmon are caught with flawless mastery. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z Visuals resonate after the film has ended, Peele's mastery of tone keeps the tension up, and the music comments on as well as compliments the climactic scenes. "Us" is a good "Twilight Zone" adaptation, but it's not as good as Jordan Peele's "Get Out." 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z There is something profound and poignant in these struggles, which illustrate one of the fundamental tasks of babyhood: the mastery of the physical environment. Movie Review |'Babies': Thomas Balm?s?s Chronicle of Four Babies 2010-05-06T22:16:00Z Rhythm, choreography and even improvisation are essential ingredients of “Love and Information,” and Dove shows a keen mastery of the play’s unusual demands. Review | 57 plays in one evening? Who’d go to such a thing? You should. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The central gallery of the museum’s 18th-century Villanueva building is dominated by Rubens, whose mastery of mythological and biblical arcana makes him seem the smartest boy in the room. Review | A Rubens exhibition asks: Are first thoughts best? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The variety of textures in her outfit offered the painter as many opportunities to flaunt his technical mastery. Impressionist nod to fashion on display in Paris 2012-11-08T10:23:08Z Beyond the mastery of specialized skills, Langlands is talking about something more holistic: a way of looking at the world. Before Glitter and Glue Sticks, ‘Craeft’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z He reminds us that good improvising is about chance-taking and suspending disbelief as much as it’s about mastery. Wayne Shorter, Jazz’s Abstruse Elder, Isn’t Done Innovating Yet 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Even so, Ailey’s mastery of multiple styles — “Revelations” is not one kind of dance theater but several — keeps this classic alive. Celebrating Two Birthdays: City Center and the Ailey Company 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z A pair of albums with divergent sonic features but a similar ethos of discovery, they highlight Mr. Cyrille’s insight, ingenuity and subtle mastery of touch. Andrew Cyrille’s Late-Career Renaissance 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Later, as he gained mastery, he abandoned these grids. Research Unveiled at Amsterdam Van Gogh Exhibition 2013-04-29T21:46:14Z In his Music for Piano and the crystalline Partita for Woodwind Quintet, Fine demonstrates an elegant mastery of Stravinsky’s spry counterpoint, balanced with his own strong sense of melody. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Somehow the idea persists that for a pianist to use a score in a performance suggests a lack of mastery or sufficient preparation. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z He usually combines men and women in uneven numbers, in continual suspense; and his mastery of changing geometries is another way in which he keeps surprising you. Celebrating Two Birthdays: City Center and the Ailey Company 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z With an unassailable technique and a commanding sense of structure, he offers uncontroversial, authoritative performances elevated by his tonal mastery and poetic sensitivity. Buttoned-down pianist Murray Perahia cuts loose in Strathmore concert 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z This was the reason that dancing was so coveted by aristocrats of that era: Effortless mastery of one’s actions, then as now, is a rare and wonderful thing. Big Dance Theater’s small works and major impression 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Some chefs show their mastery over pasta by pressing it thinner than a screen protector for an iPhone. Misi Is Much More Than a Pasta Restaurant 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z None of that matters, though, for she was, and remains, among the sharpest of all short fiction writers, an author with the grace, the depth, the mastery of a Chekhov or a Joyce. Happy birthday Flannery O'Connor, avatar of the Southern grotesque 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Deftly handling conversational and argumentative exchanges and rude, abrasive outbursts, String Noise demonstrated a thorough mastery of Mr. Zorn’s hermetic logic and irresistible whimsy. Music Review: Conor Hanick Performing John Cage at the Stone 2013-01-03T23:09:13Z It’s a return to the pop fray after multiple seasons as a coach on “The Voice” that made sure viewers didn’t forget her vocal mastery. Christina Aguilera Exults in Her Voice on ‘Liberation’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z On the other hand, cooking is also about creativity and mastery — qualities our society tends to associate more with men. Women still belong in the kitchen, according to the advice-seeking men of Reddit 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z On a deeper level, though, great gaming experiences speak to our inner desire for mastery, autonomy and purpose, Mr. Zichermann noted. The Getaway: Let’s Play: Making Travel a Game 2013-05-31T18:13:13Z District Judge Frederic Block in Brooklyn concluded that the art works reflected “striking technical and artistic mastery and vision worthy of display in prominent museums if not on the walls of 5Pointz.” Appeals court approves of $6.7M award to graffiti artists 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Over the years, Leland worked hard to improve his mastery of technology like screen readers, software programs that allow visually impaired users to read the text on a computer screen. What Does it Mean to be Blind? A Writer Chronicles The Loss of His Vision 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Practice that’s spaced out, interleaved with other learning, and varied produces better mastery, longer retention, and more versatility. Ditch the 10,000 hour rule! Why Malcolm Gladwell’s famous advice falls short 2014-04-20T15:30:00Z This mastery of timing is one of the foundations of the Balanchine style. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z If there is one shortcoming it is her limited mastery of the computer. My Thanksgiving panic 2012-11-22T00:30:00Z When did dance audiences last see and hear a composer perform his own works with the revelatory mastery shown by Thomas Adès? Review: Thomas Adès Calls for Complexity at City Center 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Maybe that’s how she achieves such distance from her fans, and also the kind of parodic control that leads to mastery. “Amazing Grace” Gives Us Aretha Franklin at the Spellbinding Height of Her Powers 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Dancing is all we see, yet its essence has been filtered away by all the attention to the performer’s mastery. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa at Joyce Theater 2012-06-28T21:07:57Z "Way," says Bill, showing surprising mastery over a dialect that may serve him well if they make vampire version of "The Hills." "True Blood" recap: Making up isn't hard to do 2010-08-09T12:30:00Z He has already shown precocious mastery in the solo canon, like Bach’s sonatas and partitas. For Classical Music, Spring Was the Season of Solos 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z And picture after picture demonstrates the artist’s unobtrusive mastery in arranging and lighting them. Art Review: Chardin's Enchanting and Ageless Moments 2010-12-22T13:13:05Z Its literature promises not lessons in technical mastery but in “keen awareness, personal expression, intensive listening and cross-cultural communication.” Music Review: Karl Berger’s Improvisers Orchestra at Shapeshifter Lab 2013-04-19T22:44:57Z What attracted Steven to the United States was its mastery of form. Modern Love: A Once-Upon-a-Time Romance 2011-03-03T20:37:34Z As in the story of Orpheus, magic and mastery are never far removed from control and ego. Past and Present, the Orpheus Myth Makes Us Rethink Music 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z By doing so, we recognize that our humanity is not constituted by our ‘mastery’ of something. In Transit Blog: Making Sense of Wallace Stevens (With Help From Some Experts) 2012-02-24T19:23:06Z Her dancing has long been praised for its dramatic intensity and technical mastery. Farewell Is in View for Jennie Somogyi, a City Ballet Lifer 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Another, more immediately obvious, is his mastery of composition and lighting, particularly notable in wide-screen films like “An Actor’s Revenge,” which demonstrates an uncanny facility for conveying emotionally charged material in coolly detached, painterly images. Japan Society Reintroduces the Filmmaker Kon Ichikawa 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z I operate at 50 or 60 percent mastery of the choreography, which is about average. Zoom In, Zumba Away 2012-01-11T23:45:24Z Below are a few of his most enduring and influential recordings: Filmed in the ’60s, Watson’s mastery is seen up close as he performs “Deep River Blues.” Doc Watson’s Legacy: What You Should Know About the Folk Legend 2012-05-30T14:57:44Z Starting as a child, Mr. Díaz played the cuatro, a four-stringed instrument that resembles a smaller version of the guitar, and his mastery of it was a key to his success. Simón Díaz, Venezuelan Folk Musician, Dies at 85 2014-02-25T03:39:53Z The two works that followed, by Mr. Walsh, showed plenty of debt to Mr. Bourne in style and idea, but with none of his communicative mastery. Critic’s Notebook: Dominic Walsh and Others at the Joyce Theater 2013-08-11T22:38:15Z To be fair to the 1958 Guardian critic, he found a lot to like in Vertigo and praised the director's mastery of suspense. Vertigo tops greatest film poll, ending reign of Citizen Kane 2012-08-01T17:32:00Z And at those drunken or debased moments in which Evelyn is at her lowest, Ms. Clifford does succeed; her mastery of the sociological details of misguided ambition is sure and savage. Review: ‘Everybody Rise,’ Stephanie Clifford’s Debut Novel, Features That Old-Money Scent 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The novel is haunting and beautiful, its power multiplied by Barry's mastery of language. Quan Barry's 'She Weeps' listens to the stories of Vietnam's dead 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Drake’s increasing mastery of not just rhyme, but tone and inflection is readily apparent. Drake, 'Nothing Was the Same' review 2013-09-23T02:13:00Z Working in the film’s favor its exquisite period design and director Robert Egger’s mastery of tone. And the Oscar might go to: the sure bets and underdogs critics have already seen 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z That she delivers such a performance almost completely covered with the exception of her eyes is a testament to her mastery. From ghosts to cannibals, here are the 10 breakout TV performances of the year 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Without checking the diploma on the self-proclaimed “beat scientist’s” wall, the combination of mastery and curiosity the inventive drummer/producer brings to his sharply focused projects is downright scholarly. Thanks, Portland, for giving Seattle this unofficial jazz festival 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z There’s the matter of each player’s mastery of the playbook. Ditch the 10,000 hour rule! Why Malcolm Gladwell’s famous advice falls short 2014-04-20T15:30:00Z "Lemonade" is neither a reaction to that perception or the result of it, but the artist's acknowledgement that her storytelling mastery rests in her songs and by extension her videos. Anatomy of a shutout: Why the Emmys snub Beyoncé despite her continuing to innovate on TV 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Vertigo: Few directors have portrayed a man’s obsession with a woman with such technical mastery and confessional purity. Secrets of the New All-TIME 100 Movies List 2012-05-17T10:00:44Z Her work, Mr. King said, is an example of the “absolute mastery of craft.” Architecture Award Honors Five Women 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z “If I pull that off, everything else will be working. It means employees have a sense of absolute mastery over everything they do.” Can Britain’s Top Bookseller Save Barnes & Noble? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Grafton was an avid mystery reader and he encouraged his daughter in her love — and eventual mastery — of the form. Review | The writer who inspired Sue Grafton — her father — gets a welcome new edition 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The actor exhibits it not only in George’s psychological mastery of physically imposing Nick, but also in his dealing forcefully with Martha’s ferocious mocking of his failures. A scintillating ‘Virginia Woolf’ with a scalding Holly Twyford 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The original of this novel has sold in its hundreds of thousands in the Netherlands, while an Italian critic has compared Abdolah, in his mastery of an alien literary language, to Nabokov and Conrad. The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z Smith is respected not just for his sax mastery, but for his influence on his homeland's jazz culture through the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. This week's new live music 2011-08-05T23:08:11Z Mr. Hass’s prize, which is given annually to recognize what the academy describes as “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry,” is one of seven awards that the academy announced on Tuesday. Robert Hass Wins $100,000 Poetry Prize 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The latter displays Alvarez's poetic hyperawareness of lyricism and word choice, and her ability to create moments that are simultaneously poignant and hilarious showcase this mastery. Recommended reading for April: New must-read books to liven up long shutdown days 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Hassan evoked these with rare mastery, which is why devotees and eager students flocked to hear him from far and wide. 2012 review: notable deaths in music 2012-12-24T09:00:08Z And finally there is the mythology of technique, the mastery of the body in a world fascinated by cyberculture.” New Steps Ahead in the South of France 2011-12-11T05:00:17Z It is through jazz, actually, that one can best understand the imaginative power and technical mastery that Morrison has achieved over the course of her literary journey. Toni Morrison: First Lady of Letters 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Adam Shankman, the director of What Men Want, knew that Henson’s mastery of physical comedy would be central to the movie. Taraji P Henson: 'Hollywood didn't grasp my talent' 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Varda’s modesty is evidence of her mastery, just as her playful demeanor is the expression of a serious and demanding aesthetic commitment. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Like a lot of eighty-seven-year-olds, Bill did not aspire to digital mastery: he never had an e-mail address; until he started writing a blog, he’d never read one. Tuesdays with William Zinsser 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z It shows Presley’s passion and control, his visceral drama, his mastery. Review: A Reverent Elvis Doc Separates the Trailblazer From His Tragedy 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z I was so in awe of the work, its aura and mastery – it was like a rapture. Caravaggio and me 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z It reminds me of early Joyce, straightforward yet showing a total mastery of prose. Elliott Carter’s Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z His intuitive mastery of and games with perspective are evident throughout, in his drawings and in works meant to be seen affixed to ceilings or placed high above doors. Review | Tintoretto was brilliant and ambitious. This new exhibition shows he was also sublimely weird. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Wit is a delicate weapon, and Wodehouse's mastery of it could teach all of us a bit of self-defence. The balm of Blandings 2013-01-12T09:00:04Z That device turned out to be technical mastery. Jerry Lewis the Auteur 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The early reader’s steady ascent can explode into a towering geyser of literacy because, Cunningham explains, reading is largely self-taught and begets its own mastery. Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z To judge from One, Van der Aa seems to have acquired an almost instant mastery over the visual medium. Michel van der Aa: 'I'm an art omnivore' 2010-04-29T22:20:00Z Such nuances get left by the wayside on Fletcher’s path to mastery. Art’s Greatest Enemy Might Not Be Science 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z And most acutely, she observed, “Like Shakespeare, Wagner seems to have attained … such a mastery of technique that he could float and soar in regions where in the beginning he could scarcely breathe.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Amid a uniformly strong cast, Londiwe Khoza draws attention not for her mastery of the style so much as for the moments when she lets hints of a regular person surface. Review: Ohad Naharin Is More Than the Sum of His Imitators 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Even those bent on posthumously taking him down still afford Jackson a kind of wizard-like mastery. R Kelly, Michael Jackson and Bryan Singer. Who knew? Everyone 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z “Appomattox” shows that he’s attained mastery in the genre — and it is, of those I’ve seen, by far the most moving. ‘Appomattox’: A superb night at the opera 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The great promise of technical mastery of the world has led to increasing inequality, and for many, penury and new forms of peonage. Review | The American Worker: Exploited from the beginning 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z New understandings of the planet recognize the coexistence of all animals, and, Aig said, younger audiences seem driven by an urge to relate to nature rather than exert a kind of mastery through knowledge. A New Breed of Animal Documentary 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z A critic who works so hard, even when his mastery of the subject seems complete, wins the everlasting devotion of his readers. Postscript: Andrew Porter (1928-2015) 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z It’s fair to say that they, and not the pianist, are the stars of this Grieg Concerto, with their sumptuous sound, meltingly beautiful orchestral solos and mastery of the score’s dramatic trajectory. CD reviews: ‘Considering Matthew Shepard,’ 18 years later 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z “Whiplash” honors neither jazz nor cinema; it’s a work of petty didacticism that shows off petty mastery, and it feeds the sort of minor celebrity that Andrew aspires to. “Whiplash” Gets Jazz All Wrong 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Asked whether the show was an attempt to reassert British mastery of long-form television after the recent dominance of American series, Mr. Kosminsky laughed. ‘Wolf Hall,’ a Six-Part TV Series, Tackles Hilary Mantel’s Books 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z But when you are as obsessive a baker as I am, the quest for novelty and mastery never ends. Apple pie and pumpkin tart, tweaked to perfection for Thanksgiving 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Installed thematically, “Devotion to Drawing” swings wonderfully between precise renderings from nature and lively, whiplashing compositions as it traces Delacroix’s diverse interests and pathways, his training, development and increasing mastery. ‘Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix’ Review: A Master off the Canvas 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z It engrosses two floors of the Breuer with art of total mastery that also, at every turn, casts doubt on its own achievement. The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Isabella Bird, the Victorian travel writer whose books kept her English audience rapt, wrote in “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan”: “The wood-carving needs weeks of earnest work for the mastery of its ideas and details.” Overnighter : North of Tokyo, Exploring the Sacred and Scenic 2014-02-06T19:30:54Z “Any of the activities we’ve been talking about give us a feeling of control and mastery, which is critical to reducing stress.” The joy of solitaire – on your table, not your computer screen 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Mastery is also discipline and hard work and mastery of an art form. Final Sendak book a tribute to his brother 2013-02-04T12:39:13Z But as the years went by, the formidable technical skills and the mastery of preparation became even more perfect, while the subject matter became ever more ambiguous. David Hare: my friendship with Patrick Caulfield 2013-05-25T08:02:04Z He shunned any hierarchy between the arts and crafts; each, he believed, required effort to acquire mastery, a gift available to all. William Morris was right – true joy lies in making it yourself 2013-06-08T23:04:17Z From the beginning, the band has flaunted its technical mastery and omnivorous listening, and its tastes encompass prog-rock, post-punk, pop, funk, jazz, contemporary classical music, cabaret, electronics, flamenco, noise and more. black midi Bristles at a Bleak World With ‘Hellfire’ 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Her sound, too, balances mastery with mystery; her recent recordings of those partitas and sonatas for solo violin trace Bach’s lines with a touch that feels like exquisite, if singular, penmanship. Midori’s career started with a fleeting moment. It’s evolved into a lasting legacy. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z The guitarist Bill Frisell receives due credit for many things — his fluidity, his whimsy, his sly mastery of timbre and color — but probably not enough for his rhythm. Music Review: Floating Along on the Rhythm While Staying Anchored to the Beat 2011-04-20T21:48:56Z Lagerfeld's fashion mastery was on full display — to produce what he called his "modern graphic effect." Actors and seamstresses the stars of Chanel's Paris couture 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s easy to imagine a book that tries to analyze or celebrate its allure in whiskey terms — complexity, smoothness, the mastery of the distillers and so on. 6 Books for Thinking, Drinking and Changing the World 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z There’s some nice stuff to look at in “Super 8,” but the achievement is mainly J. J. Abrams paying tribute to Mr. Spielberg’s formal mastery. Summer Movies: Some Have a Blast 2011-07-17T01:13:02Z The poet, addressing herself to the mastery of her precursor and her feeling about their comparative power, offers a tribute. How beabadoobee’s “I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus” Reckons with a Rock Idol 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z For a jazz pianist, the mastery entails a staggering breadth of knowledge about harmony, rhythm and orchestration, all converging in an eloquent synthesis. Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Oh, and there’s the mastery of death by staring a formaldehyded shark in its face. Damien Hirst at Tate Modern 2012-07-09T14:15:00Z You automatically lose that transfixing “Introduction” to the second of the ballet’s three parts, a showcase of Ravel’s mastery with color and shade. Review | Yan Pascal Tortelier and the NSO find their own voices in ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z She relishes in the admixture of creative industry, high-budget production, and guitar mastery necessary to keep her theater afloat. Review | St. Vincent gets trapped in ’70s revivalism on ‘Daddy’s Home’ 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z To represent political power and economic clout, he needed a mastery of optics and color theory and classical history, but also a gaze that cut through pretensions to give the greatest distinction of all: selfhood. Hans Holbein: Truth in Painting 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z I loved Coco for its visual kaleidoscope of colors, its mastery of capturing the essence and cultural significance of the "Day of the Dead" tradition. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z In their 50s and 60s, they sounded fresh and vigorous, working with self-regulating cooperation and generosity, showing mastery but bringing in the audience completely. Music Review: ‘Women Who Worship’ at McDonald’s Gospelfest in Newark 2014-05-11T21:55:03Z To achieve whole-grill mastery, begin by forgetting fully a third, maybe more, of the cooking surface. How to make the most of your grill time 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The goal is not mastery, but simply to recognize and enjoy all its subtle expressions. Rosé Champagne Brings the Holiday Joy 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z “I’ve rescued them from their domain that is driven by crisis and the mastery of information, and embedded them in a process where they’re not experts,” Mr. Williams said of the students. Improving Medicine With Art 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z It wasn’t senility melting the edges of form and letting the clowns and tragedians cross-pollinate; experience and mastery were doing that. Review: A Moving ‘Winter’s Tale,’ With Women in Charge 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z His mastery of a wide range of genres and instruments made him a musician ahead of his time. Ennio Morricone Was More Than Just a Great Film Composer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z It frequently emerges without the help of rhyme, through a mastery of quick-moving tonal subtleties. Poem of the week: Showing Me by Sam Gardiner 2011-04-04T09:59:20Z The Attacca players seem incapable of putting on a dull concert; one of the final live performances I heard before last year’s lockdown featured them in joyous mastery of Caroline Shaw’s string quartets. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z He also observed how her mastery of Balanchine technique deepened the contours of her interpretation: Tiler Peck, spinning in new directions with the Kennedy Center’s ‘Little Dancer’ There is acute beauty in watching humans operate with the physical skill and technical mastery of Olympians. Matt Lauer, pleasant corporate stooge: America’s double standard on politicizing the Olympics 2014-02-14T16:34:00Z And whatever I do comes much more from that – from sitting in band rooms for ten years listening to records – than from any mastery of computers. ZTT: 'Every record company panicked after Two Tribes' – a classic feature from the vaultsZTT: 'Every record company panicked after Two Tribes' 2013-01-01T11:00:00Z His mastery of his craft is apparent throughout the movie, but there are two particular moments that really drive home the point. Lessons from Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Establishment Democrats sold out the voters 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Farrell is renowned for her deep knowledge of the Balanchine canon and for her ability to convey the nuances of its mastery. Suzanne Farrell Ballet to disband in 2017 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z For a piece now considered to be a summation of a lifetime of contrapuntal mastery and spiritual depth, it is astonishing to realize that Bach probably never had any intention of having it performed. Gaechinger Cantorey brings a new name and spellbinding sound to Disney Hall 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Critics of Bausch often concede her technical mastery only to complain about her message, usually her view of men and women. Review: Haunted by Ghosts and Rites of Pina Bausch’s Past 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z "Without such fantasies, the child fails to get to know his monster better, nor is he given suggestions as to how he may gain mastery over it," Bettelheim wrote in the study. The dark ending of the "The Witches" remake is actually the one that we need right now 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z CNN’s mastery of tech and process made it the perfect vehicle for the dissemination of a whopping error, one that gets quickly picked up and retweeted. The SCOTUS-Reporting Screwup, Second By Second 2012-07-09T14:01:48Z "The judges noted Mantel's even greater mastery of method now," he added. Mantel could make history with Booker Prize double 2012-10-12T10:32:48Z It’s they who, from the opening steps, show Balanchine’s thrilling contrasts between tight-closed positions and wide-stretched-open ones; his extraordinarily rhythmic use of three-dimensional space; and his unmatched mastery of changing geometries. Dance Review: Balanchine Evening Ignites City Ballet Winter Season 2014-01-22T22:40:35Z “The thing that I’ve always been a little bit jealous of is a complete, a total giving to one form, like a genre, and just a mastery of it,” he said. Oneohtrix Point Never’s Quest to Make Music That Freaks People Out 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Having put these two works together for his first half, Ohlsson delineated all of their varied moods to perfection, with all of his familiar mastery of touch and phrasing. Familiar mastery from Garrick Ohlsson 2014-01-16T19:07:12Z For comedy aficionados, it remains an exhibition of technical mastery, with all the stately polish of a Sinatra gig. Comedy gold: Jerry Seinfeld's I'm Telling You for the Last Time 2012-06-14T11:38:33Z At other times, with mastery as much psychological as anatomical, he shows them all in the body of a single anonymous dancer. Degas?s Ballet at the Phillips Collection and Royal Academy 2011-09-02T12:39:28Z Big bonus: Martin Scorsese's A Letter to Elia, a poignant memoir-doc of a young man's love for the rough mastery of a mentor's films.
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2010-12-24T14:10:00Z Davis simply needed the affirmation that a different life was possible, one that was achievable through the mastery of language. Why reading fiction with friends is therapeutic too 2013-02-01T16:20:42Z It was by no means the last time Hoyland would attain a mastery of means, only to change direction deliberately and reinvent his manner and style. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z Though there are certain Spielberg hallmarks–yes, including some fairly unrepentant sentimentality–the film is restrained enough to earn its interest from dialogue, not from technical mastery announcing itself. Bridge of Spies Paints History in Black and White 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z He admired Bach for his mastery of repetition and used the device to rhythmic, incantatory effect in his prose. Review: ‘Hemingway’ Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z "Miéville thickens his plot with exceptional mastery," wrote Michael Moorcock in the Guardian. China Mi?ville and Paolo Bacigalupi tie for Hugo award 2010-09-06T13:42:00Z “Here was an architect working in a different medium to achieve the heights of mastery,” she said. Form, Function and Beauty Span Eons in Met Acquisitions 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z “In the strikingly simple composition of a circular figure within a perfectly square canvas, the work showcases the artist’s mastery of form, color, and design,” says Susan Grace Galassi, senior curator at The Frick. Sir Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June Makes Its New York Debut 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z But in the end the demonstration of that mastery may be more satisfying than the analysis of it, and matching new faces to voices we already know is a gift for music fans. Movie Review: ‘20 Feet From Stardom’ Explores World of Backup Singers 2013-06-13T23:57:32Z Her gaze is one of both youthful confidence and utter command, with the humanistic mastery of a true Renaissance woman. The Renaissance Women Who Painted Against the Odds 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z That’s because of Joseph Kanon’s mastery of the quotidian detail in “The Accomplice,” of the small frictions and sparks of human relationships. Imagining the World of Nazi Hunters 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The players, under Mr. Lintu, demonstrated abundant mastery and musicianship in this exciting program. Music Review: Avanti! Ensemble in Finnish Works at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-12-04T22:30:17Z The work did not find favor with its intended patron, Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes, but these excerpts reveal a sparkling mastery of orchestral color. CD reviews: Noseda makes case for neglected Italian master 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The battle system is remarkably complex, demanding mastery of blocks, attack breaks, counters and more, plus awareness of power and health gauges. Persona 4 Arena – review 2013-05-18T23:04:10Z On Friday night, the maestro, along with his Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Chorus, unleashed the tragic power of "Otello" by Giuseppe Verdi, whose music nobody alive conducts with greater mastery. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z But it was understandably difficult to keep quiet after a performance of a masterly art delivered with mastery. The Classical Music Event of the Summer Is in Salzburg’s Shadow 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z This dark, funny novel displays its author’s mastery of scrupulous psychological detail and ear for the ways love inverts itself into cruelty. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The egg, slid into a smoking-hot oiled skillet then basted with said fat until done, is just an added flex, as in: "Behold my mastery of the sear." Egg cookery by emotional state: An essential guide 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z That the novel succeeds so well is a tribute to Phillips’s mastery of tone. Two Writers Haunted by Their Caribbean Past 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Bronfman played the breathless solo part, which was written for him, with unpretentious wisdom and mastery, like a noble march to the grave. Review: Carnegie Hall’s Season Opens With Two Faces of Cleveland 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z It led him, as a teacher, to emphasize large ideas and the development of those ideas through the mastery of materials. Art Review: ‘Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper,’ at the Morgan 2012-07-26T23:09:42Z Ambitious and deftly written, “The Soldier and the State” is an argument for civilian mastery over a professional military. Should We Worry About Trump’s Fawning Admiration of the Military? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z “Getting ahead at work takes mastery of job skills and difficult colleagues … If you’re good at learning, you have an advantage in life.” 7 Tips to Improve Your Memory 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Photograph: Ken McKay/Thames/Rex Features The discrepancy between Rylan's mastery of the quick, concise, witty retort, and his difficulty exploring anything in depth without contradicting himself, is fascinating. Rylan Clark on The X Factor, death threats and being seen as a fame-hungry diva 2012-12-16T20:00:00Z Part of Beyoncé’s cultural mastery, Smith said, has included the ability to make herself scarce at some moments and then to once again become center of everything when she chooses. Is Beyoncé’s Latest Album Rollout (Gasp!) Conventional? 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Her writings frequently put her at odds with church leaders, but her mastery of the archives and persuasive writing style won her admirers among Mormons and non-Mormons alike. Linda King Newell, Feminist Scholar of Mormon History, Dies at 82 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Lorre, in an email message, described her method as “a perfect mixture of mastery and joy.” In ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Annaleigh Ashford Puts It All Together 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Like his biggest mainland hit “Aftershock,” a 2010 earthquake saga, “Back to 1942” shows the director’s mastery of chaotic spectacle, massed human motion and elegant camera movements. ‘Back to 1942’: a grim tale of famine, war in China | Movie review 2012-12-06T22:02:31Z Silberman, renowned for his mastery of the higher vocal registers, navigated his lyrics with confidence. Antlers not ‘sad' but definitely intense | Concert review 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z His feet and hands created four unrelated pulses while he chewed gum at yet another speed and blew a bubble — serious mastery alongside light humor. Santana plays classics at White River 2011-08-27T03:12:27Z Some songs recall early David Bowie; the mastery of key and chord changes classic Kinks. Grant Hart: The Argument – review 2013-07-18T20:16:00Z Mr. Kavakos’s playing combines utter mastery of the instrument with rich sound and searching musicianship. Music Review: Lionel Bringuier Leads Philharmonic by Himself 2013-06-14T19:16:12Z In my imagination, at least, it demonstrated a purity of commitment, a kind of mastery. And, on Passover, God Gave the Israelites Back Their Legumes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The show was a celebration of our mastery of timekeeping, and of the refinement and years of training that go into making objects of beauty and accuracy. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z As usual, this prodigiously talented singer showed off a voice of rare fullness and ease, along with awesome technical mastery. Tenor Fabiano shines in Verdi's `I Lombardi' 2013-04-09T19:46:08Z She praised Walcott's technical mastery, saying: "It is a complete book from first to last; each poem belongs completely." TS Eliot prize goes to Derek Walcott for 'moving and technically flawless' work 2011-01-24T19:30:01Z The story is based on a 1735 series of engravings by William Hogarth, and Stravinsky’s score has the etched-in-acid precision of that medium as well as classical mastery of line and proportion. Review: ‘The Rake’s Progress’ Makes a Brief Visit at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Yet it was in evening clothes used to open the show — a tuxedo spliced with a kimono — that Mr. Armani demonstrated how, even at almost 83, he retains his mastery. New Energy at Versace, Ralph Lauren and Emporio Armani 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z The political movement he belonged to was the movement of his own competence and mastery. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace 2012-09-12T16:30:39Z He speaks, he says, fairly good Xhosa, a language that, for starters, demands mastery of three different sorts of clicks – dental, lateral and palatal. District Six revisited 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z For some artists with a fervent grass-roots base and a mastery of social media, the answer is no. Why Frank Ocean and Other Big Names Prefer the Sudden Digital Drop 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z They are recognizably late works in their makers’ careers, infusing absolute mastery of craft with an almost reckless sense of freedom. At Venice Festival, the Wisdom of Lunatics, the Wildness of Age 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z What impressed me more, however, was the boys’ youthful mastery of the basics of Odissi style. Critic?s Notebook: Nrityagram Dance and Other Indian Troupes in New York 2012-03-25T23:19:52Z Ms. Summerscale’s easy mastery of what turns out to be a complicated, at times surprising narrative drives the book forward. Review: ‘The Wicked Boy,’ a Young Killer’s Twisty Path to Atonement 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z HBO's "The Third Day," which concluded on Monday, has consistently shown a mastery of the emotional equivalent of the jump scare. In HBO's creepy thriller "The Third Day," Jude Law makes grief the ultimate jump scare 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z But when the diver kicks out of her roll and disappears cleanly into the water, with no splash, no sound but a rip — that’s the hallmark of mastery we all recognize. Hitting the water without a splash gets big cheers, but has Olympic diving gotten too dry? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z There’s much to appreciate in Conrad’s mastery of building tension toward ludicrous outcomes in some case, or punctuating stretches of relative calm with explosions of chaos and violence. A spy like us: Amazon’s “Patriot” is the screw-up’s answer to TV’s super-agents 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “It’s this constant quest for mastery. It’s mentally challenging as well.” Competitive axe-throwing is an actual thing, and apparently it’s best done with beer 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z No other show this year had such a nimble mastery of tone or such a surprising and enchanting ability to toy with form. The Memorable TV Episodes of 2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Hakhnazaryan’s rendition soared tenderly as he played with conviction, demonstrating his mastery of the lyrical line. Review | A childhood dream to perform ‘Meditation’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z It was celebrated for its technological mastery of visual storytelling, yet its narrative is nothing more than racist propaganda. Gone With the Wind and the damaging effect of Hollywood racism 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Boorman’s output varies in quality — his visual mastery and command of pace and rhythm have not always been matched by his taste in material or his screenwriting skills. John Boorman Tribute at Film Forum Goes Beyond ‘Deliverance’ 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Bychkov’s mastery of symphonic structure and scale proved a better match for Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony. Review | Czech Philharmonic showcases musical birthright 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z It wasn’t a conversation America needed to have in order to heal, or proof of mastery. Review: The Daily Show's Obama Interview Shows Trevor Noah's Flaws as an Interviewer 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z A central problem, though, is that Mr. Taylor, 86, is a master choreographer — singular in both compositional canniness and idiosyncratic imagination — who, paradoxically, keeps forgetting the secrets of his mastery. Paul Taylor Opens With Humor Intact, but Poetry Missing 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Then again, it would be hard to mind hearing Hahn, with her quiet, luminous mastery, play pretty much anything she chose. A lyrical blend of new and old in Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin’s performance 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Mostly, the piece shows his dazzling range of balletic invention and mastery of composition. Dance Review: Choreographer Works Magic With Latest Ballet 2013-12-20T13:13:20Z It represents a mastery of the genre that Spielberg created with Jaws. My favourite film when I was 12: Jurassic Park 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Three Billboards is staggeringly entertaining – its script performs a series of hairpin turns with a mastery that leaves you agog. Why Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The crisp light of a later wintry afternoon is handled with a mastery that puts this panel on a par with the very greatest landscapes of the golden age of Dutch painting. Old Masters Rush In to Save the Day 2010-12-10T12:42:00Z Given these three actors exhibit such mastery at inhabiting different roles, this didn’t need to be the case. A Dramatic Play About Finance? Yes, if It’s Lehman Brothers 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Various artists use technical mastery to create visions of impending doom. October galleries: Apocalypse now 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z “Simplicity is the absolute expression of mastery,” Jake noted one day while we watched an ice-pick-wielding bartender aggressively transform a dense ice cube into a sphere. In the watering holes of Tokyo, the highball reigns supreme 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Irwin’s mastery of this technique was just recently on display at Pace Gallery’s 25th Street space as part of his “Cacophonous” solo exhibition. Dia:Beacon presents Robert Irwin’s Excursus: Homage to the Square³ 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Such mastery is possible because of what Mr Ericsson calls “deliberate practice”. Getting the most out of one’s self 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The outer movements show dazzling mastery of richly harmonious geometries, with rings, arcs and lines moving at different speeds. Review: A Mark Morris Premiere Features Singular Theater Poetry 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z We achieve a mastery of language and poetics that competes on the highest levels of discourse across the entirety of human history. Lupe Fiasco Pens Open Letter on Ghostwriting 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The swimming pool sequences, in which Clyde patiently and good-humoredly coaxes his friend toward mastery, are beautiful and real, more interested in observing behavior than in making a point about the characters. | 'Jack Goes Boating': Learning to Swim in the Deep End of Life?s Pool 2010-09-17T00:05:00Z In middle childhood the brain is “at its peak for learning, organized enough to attempt mastery yet still fluid, elastic, neuronally gymnastic.” Motherlode Blog: Middle Childhood Is Peak Time for Learning 2011-12-27T16:19:22Z Not bad: but considering Meryl’s mastery of accents, the Donald voice could have been a little better — though she was singing. Streep, Depp, Fallon … who's the top Trump impersonator? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Rustici’s striking sculptures in the rest of the show demonstrate his mastery of diverse materials. Art Review: The Great Rustici Emerges From the Shadows 2010-12-13T15:41:00Z “Jeopardy!” may hinge on one’s mastery of the arcane, but it also insists that a fact is a fact, no matter what. Perspective | In the dumbest and darkest of times, Alex Trebek maintained a safe space for intelligence 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z A sense of easy, convivial mastery pervades the room. Choreographer Kyle Abraham on race, the MacArthur curse and dancing to Kendrick and Kanye 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z We cover over that depression by pursuing something we think will make us whole and by grasping hold of beliefs that give us a sense of mastery, but the problem is symptoms. Christians should abandon Christianity 2013-04-21T16:00:00Z There’s something compelling in Collins’s sheer mastery, but it’s about time we made “Jeopardy!” competitive again. Julia Collins’s legendary “Jeopardy!” run proves we need a five-win limit 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z An underappreciated part of Ellington’s artistry is his mastery of misdirection. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z But the movie’s aesthetic byways are tethered to the core of the action, which is science and its characters’ mastery of it. What's Missing from “The Martian” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The hymn tune at the heart of “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity” resonated with patriotic heart and wartime nostalgia; “Uranus, the Magician” and “Neptune, the Mystic” keenly conveyed Holst’s still-awing mystery and mastery. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘The Planets’ Builds on Holst’s Work 2013-07-07T21:26:23Z There's also a spot of proper scariness from the possessed coma patients – and Moffat once again displays a mastery of childhood paranoias. Doctor Who: Matt Smith's debut in The Eleventh Hour - the verdict 2010-04-03T18:25:00Z But their technical mastery and innovative flair are unmistakable. What our writers love this week 2010-09-29T22:38:00Z He shows his enemies how much he knows about them, and once they have accepted his mastery, he gives them their marching orders: “Grovel.” 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Cromwell the Serpent Makes an Appearance 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z And paying attention to Mr. De Palma’s mastery of them doesn’t constitute nostalgia so much as a call to arms. All That Sex and Blood, Mr. De Palma! 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It doesn’t sound quite like anything else in Apple’s — or anyone’s — catalog, but something about the mastery and liberation of it reminds me of “Hissing of Summer Lawns”-era Joni Mitchell. Fiona Apple Is Back and Unbound: Let’s Discuss 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Mr. MacMillan’s estimable mastery of orchestral timbre and effect is evident throughout. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z It takes some inner mastery to release that garbage so I can box. Marlen Esparza is my idol 2012-08-06T01:00:00Z Spiral learning refers to the idea of revisiting basic ideas over and over, building upon them and elaborating to the level of full understanding and mastery. Is it better to learn something in small, frequent chunks of information? 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The pair “demonstrate complete mastery of composition as well as narrative, building emotion, tension and lyricism at the service of cinematographic images.” Spain: Composers Williams, Morricone honored for film scores 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z On Dec. 1 Teresa Reichlen showed that mastery; nobody else I saw this season kept building the adagio from peak to peak so beautifully. Critic?s Notebook: Change Is a Constant Theme in City Ballet?s ?Nutcracker? 2011-12-27T23:30:58Z Burnet was the ultimate safe pair of hands in news presenting, with a mastery of politics and a concern for what the "plain folk" wanted to know. Obituary: Sir Alastair Burnet 2012-07-20T09:34:12Z I thought about this and other complications of mastery as I watched the Washington Ballet program “Contemporary Masters,” works by Mark Morris, Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor, at Sidney Harman Hall. Review | Washington Ballet dancers are tested by contemporary works 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z It was the first step in a journey that has defined mastery of song. 30 Years on, the World’s Greatest Song Partnership Flourishes 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z In the 1930s, he adopted a more Neo-Classical style, composing essentially in a tonal language enriched with contemporary sonorities and demonstrating utter mastery of counterpoint. Classical Playlist: Teodor Currentzis, Bach and Per Bloland 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z These tattoos were traditionally inscribed on women’s skin by women’s hands to commemorate various achievements and points in a woman’s life, such as one’s first menstrual period, the mastery of a new skill and childbirth. An ‘Ancestral Memory’ Inscribed in Skin 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z But she showed mastery of issues recently when she was a guest on “Charlie Rose,” handling with ease his questions on the Trump presidency and foreign policy. Katy Tur Is Tougher Than She Looks 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Looking at Pericoli's line drawings in their beautiful simplicity, their wealth of detail and their mastery of line and perspective, you can see what he means. New York City views 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z Still, he says of his friend, “If I dealt in coins and cunning, Chaucer dealt in words and figures, which he mingled, cooked, and distilled with the adept mastery of an alchemist.” ‘The Invention of Fire’ is a thrillingly written 14th-century murder mystery 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z More important, there are amazing victories just waiting to be pulled from the maw of defeat through your mastery of strategy and aim. Video Game Review: World of Tanks, Armored Combat Video Game - Review 2011-09-16T21:51:48Z A measure of Ms. Mulder’s extraordinary sensitivity is her mastery of both Mr. Sondheim and Tom Waits, songwriters who have little in common. Review: Marissa Mulder Trusts Her Intuition at the Metropolitan Room 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z HIs delivery made him unique and unforgettable, and his mastery of an audience left his fellow comedians in awe. Gilbert Gottfried, defender of transgressive comedy and a throwback to the great joke-tellers 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z What we have lost with Aretha Franklin is technical mastery, yes, but also an ancestral instinct. The Clairvoyance of the Fourteen-Year-Old Aretha Franklin 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s the kind of regional homage that one might find at the fair, but also an allusion to the false impression of household bliss that the mastery of the “domestic arts” might imply. And the Blue Ribbon Goes to ... Anissa Mack 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z There’s enough here to demonstrate Robbins’s mastery — we’re shown different kinds of time, various layers of space, in a drama like little else in ballet. A Robbins Rarity, ‘Watermill,’ Reimagined as a Chamber Piece 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z With great facility and charm, Jenny Rosenstrach’s “Dinner: A Love Story,” based on her popular blog of the same name, recounts the author’s progression from self-doubt to mastery, both at work and at home. “Dinner: A Love Story” 2012-07-26T16:25:00Z Mr. Bergès said that he had been attracted to Mr. Biden’s work for “its mastery of color and form, and most importantly, its authenticity.” A Gallery Sells Hunter Bidens. The White House Says It Won’t Know Who’s Buying. 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z That mastery is displayed very differently, with playful insouciance, in “Pas./Parts,” a dazzling cascade of solos, duets, trios, quartets and ensemble pieces that shows the company as a post-“Middle” generation. Critic’s Notebook: William Forsythe Revival at Paris Opera Ballet 2012-12-28T21:15:47Z As a fledgling artist, I paid attention to the breadth of his curiosity as well as the mastery of his drawings—the structured washes and tones and the animated line. The Timeless Cartoons of Dana Fradon 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The reason the film the stayed with me – and it did; it was the first film I went to see multiple times – is Spielberg’s mastery of tension and release. My favourite film when I was 12: Jurassic Park 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Positioned before black backdrops and dramatically lighted, the photos show a respect for nature but also a sense of mastery over it worthy of the Enlightenment’s intellectual confidence. Galleries: ‘Alive and Present, ‘Enduring’ “But our disorientation is the strongest evidence of the filmmaker’s mastery.” Critics' Picks Video: 'Lolita' 2010-07-26T22:05:00Z The exhibition offers witty as well as penetrating social commentary presented with artistic mastery. ‘Love Me Tender’: artistic meditations on money 2013-03-07T21:58:14Z It’s a substantial contribution to the history of interwar art, although you will need a mastery of French, German and Dada gibberish to read it. A Plan to Spread Dada Worldwide, Revisited at MoMA 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z This volume offers further proof of Munro’s mastery, and shows her striking out in the direction of a new, late style that sums up her whole career. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z You watch "Swing Time," you watch "Top Hat," and what Fred Astaire is doing there is showing a mastery of the high art of that era -- the waltz, the foxtrot and the like. CIA agent turned comics writer Tom King on making art in the era of Trump's "absurdity" 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Both were exceptional performances, with “Three” showing Mr. Naharin’s compositional genius and the dancers’ mastery of his particular movement style and its display of extreme displacements, naturalistic gesture and improbable juxtapositions. Dance Review: An Eccentric Sendoff for a Festival?s Leader 2011-06-12T22:10:07Z Partly that’s because the show is so unique in its mastery and appeal—the closest analogue to “Game Of Thrones” is probably AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” which started a year before the HBO show. “Game of Thrones” goes to war: The once-radical fantasy is now the establishment—for better and for worse 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Remember how Luke Skywalker became more of drip the closer he came to mastery? Why is "Ahsoka" so intent on maintaining the old "Star Wars" order instead of forging a new path? 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Certainly the technique was there, in the incredible ease of his passagework and the sheer brilliance of his first-movement cadenza, but so were the pianist’s mastery of amazing subtleties and his control of dynamics. Pianist Lang Lang, once dubbed ‘Bang Bang’ for his flashy technique, brings exquisite refinement to Seattle Symphony concert 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “I had a blind spot about standing up for myself,” Abedin writes in a mastery of understatement. Review | Huma Abedin opens up about her marriage, the 2016 election and her #MeToo moment 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Who wouldn't want to borrow that split-second comic timing, the subtle wit, the mastery of the tiny gesture – a raised eyebrow, a slumped shoulder – that said everything while he said nothing at all? Clip joint: Charlie Chaplins 2011-07-13T15:34:00Z There is now no English poet whose work I look forward to as much as Reid's: he has a voice purely his own, and a mastery of prosody. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z Like any good tour, it ends with a big reveal, and the mastery of space, light and colour in the main chapel are a spiritual experience for those of any faith and none. Great modern architecture in Europe: readers’ tips 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z But the mastery of Rattigan's play lies in its ambivalence. The Winslow Boy – review 2013-03-20T18:47:25Z It's touched the Asian American community in addition to the wider moviegoing audience who cannot deny its artistic mastery, goofy humor and emotional appeal. Directors on the ADHD theory of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z For all his mastery of the issues, Kissinger frequently lost sight of American purposes. Learning From Henry Kissinger 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z For all her mastery of the spooky trappings of suspense, Cameron also respects another, more fundamental element of the form — plotting. Pushed From the Clock Tower, Buried in the Yard 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z The mysterious poetry of this all-female ballet to Debussy — conjuring essences of bygone eastern Mediterranean cultures — is another example of Robbins’s mastery of making music theatrical. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z His mastery of visual storytelling is something that most directors do not possess. "Passion and anger without a strategy is called frustration": Bill Duke on positive systemic change 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Figes's new work will remind readers of his gifts, keen judgment and mastery of sources . Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Mr. Curtis’s Joe is a more natural woman, his mastery of feminine wiles more instinctive, based on a surer intuition into the real thing. An Appraisal: Marvelous Invention of Movie Make-Believe 2010-10-01T23:18:00Z At intervals, Vanessa would look over at me and smile this absolutely wicked smile, illuminating a sense of both mastery and farce. Dominatrix for a day 2012-11-04T01:00:00Z Analogies are imperfect — this critic’s mastery of Danish history even more so — but Struensee, who died a few years before the start of the American Revolution, might be compared to Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin. Movie Review: ‘A Royal Affair,’ With Mads Mikkelsen 2012-11-08T22:32:05Z It takes skill, but not mastery; rookie players can win. Perspective | In a world of Monopoly and Risk, the maker of Catan settled for more 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z It wasn’t an evening of much choreographic substance, but you couldn’t fault the dancers’ technical mastery and evident joy at being back onstage. On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Performing the 14 Jerome Kern songs, Mr. Bennett not only displays technical mastery but also an uncanny sense of discretion. Tony Bennett at 90: ‘I Just Love What I’m Doing’ 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Pianist Conrad Tao is one, as acclaimed for his own works as for his mastery of the classics. 8 Seattle-area classical music picks for fall 2021 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z However, perhaps the song repertoire is even more potent, her mastery of it coming about because most of her recitals were given outside the Soviet Union. Galina Vishnevskaya obituary 2012-12-11T18:32:40Z But as he took requests written on slips of paper filled out by audience members, it became evident that familiarity is not synonymous with thorough mastery. Music Review: Gregory Charles at Caf? Carlyle - Review 2011-09-13T20:12:21Z Even so, it requires complex musicality, a mastery of stylistic intricacy and a difficult balance of humor and passion. Critic’s Notebook: In American Ballet Theater’s ‘Sylvia,’ Stars Shine 2013-06-28T21:40:45Z There is a Zen mastery in producing a film which nullifies the concept of pleasure. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters – review 2013-02-28T15:29:01Z What it can do is address heroic delusions and mastery with spirit and a sense of that most elusive quality among supermen: fun. Streaming Now: Two Sets of Subversive Heroes 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z What this staging revealed gorgeously was Ms. Brown’s endlessly changing mastery of stage geometries. Vuyani Dance Theater and Trisha Brown at Fall for Dance 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z All but despairing of finding the right actress, he is astonished when one shows up at his door, begs to be allowed to audition, and then establishes psychological and sexual mastery over the man. Cannes 2013 lineup: heavy-hitters and unexpected gems 2013-04-18T15:22:59Z "I had not given enough consideration to the mastery of Reed's direction." The superb, thrilling 'Third Man' returns in a brilliant restoration 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z For a writer like Didion, with such a mastery of language, such a defined style, “Hello, there” might seem an unlikely object of focus. Waking from the John Wayne dream: Columbus and Jackson are dead, but America’s war against Indigenous people lives on 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The Mexico-born Bernal plays the maestro as a wise fool, possessing a childlike carelessness and a profound, almost peerless mastery of his craft. 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Overcame it to achieve mastery of the language, inspired by Lord Macaulay. Boris Johnson and Winston Churchill: can you tell them apart? 2013-06-04T15:35:01Z If you listen closely, there are signs that “Star Wars” and “Close Encounters” share a composer: an affinity for Ligeti comes through in both, as does a mastery of cosmic Romanticism. ‘Psycho’ and ‘Close Encounters’ Roll at the Philharmonic 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z This was particularly true for England, an island nation that could thrive only through mastery of the sea. Exhibition Review: At the Folger, a 200-Year Survey of the Sea 2010-08-18T18:21:00Z This was no casual first attempt — his ease spoke volumes of the practice behind a maestro's symbiotic mastery of his AGA. The legendary allure of Britain's AGA stove 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z It’s one thing to don a pair of sunglasses and show off one’s mastery of a musical instrument; what Phil eventually accomplishes is far deeper. Why Harold Ramis’ “Groundhog Day” is a perfect guide to life 2014-02-25T16:32:00Z According to Tartini, the Violin Sonata in G minor appeared to him in a dream in which the Devil offered his servitude in return for Tartini’s soul and then played the violin with dazzling mastery. Music Review: Miranda Cuckson and Blair McMillen in Recital 2013-05-11T02:06:28Z The goal is to boost their kung fu mastery by earning colored sashes that stand for ever-improving levels of skill. DreamWorks rolls out "Kung Fu Panda" virtual world 2010-04-12T07:33:00Z Though that may seem self-explanatory, it signals both a stance and a mastery of the still-emergent form that, even in the late 80s, was viewed with suspicion by the purists of British documentary photography. Photographer David Moore's dingy, deteriorating Derby is the real deal 2013-04-10T16:29:00Z "She has a mastery for set-making and that really appealed to me," Johnson says of Stern. Blame the panda cam: Why Art F City made a naked-artist panda calendar 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z In addition to her instrumental mastery and beautiful sound, she is a musician with ideas. Baltimore Symphony goes waltzing without the usual partners 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Without truncating them on a Procrustean bed of technical mastery, she finds a singularly cinematic tone with which to yield to them, to yield herself up to them. Angelina Jolie Pitt’s “By the Sea” Is Personal and Daring 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z In Monday night's BBC4 documentary, Winehouse's sense of mastery and control is evident when she plays a song like Tears Dry on Their Own to a tiny crowd gathered in a Dingle church. Amy Winehouse: songs in the key of life 2012-07-22T17:00:12Z “Among other things, Indyk’s book is a brilliant account of how the mastery of personal diplomacy can depart from the diplomat’s true mission of peace.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Showtime assures us that this fifth season will be the last, but every season of “The Affair” had a way of feeling like a final season — such was the show’s mastery of ambiguity and distance. Review | ‘The Affair’ returns for a final season of old hurts — and a glimpse of the future 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z And, though I’ve found many occasions to praise City Ballet’s return to form over recent seasons, this matinee showed a range of ways in which its mastery of Balanchine style is still incomplete. Review: Five by Balanchine, Stark and Dramatic, at City Ballet 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z But in another way, it is also one of the most technological, technological in the original sense of the word, alluding to craft and mastery — techne — the art of making. Exhibition Review: In ‘Art of the Brick,’ Nathan Sawaya Works With Lego 2013-06-13T22:04:31Z Now layer in the visuals, which is where the "Moonlight" director exerts absolute mastery. "The Underground Railroad" is a relentlessly tough, yet gorgeously rendered television masterpiece 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z “With Britten the dramatic mastery and the music mastery are equal, and he was searching for the same dark world that Berg was,” Ms. Warner said. A British Opera, Still Gathering Fans, Arrives in Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z These were last temporarily united for the “Carpaccio: Painter of Stories” exhibition at the Accademia in Venice a decade ago, where they provided eloquent testimony to the artist’s enduring mastery of multipart narratives. Puncturing the Myth of Carpaccio’s Waning Powers 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z With quiet mastery the story draws in the reader. Dutch gardener reaps Impac prize 2010-06-17T18:30:00Z The artifice and mastery of form in the creation of this game are obvious. Video Game Review: Gears of War 3 - Review 2011-09-19T17:12:57Z Listen closely when you attend a performance, and you’ll hear the Russian composer’s mastery at orchestration. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z Other examples—such as the work of e.e. cummings—is astonishing in its mastery. Famous writers’ art and design 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z But the drama of “Eva Hesse” is a story of mastery and self-discovery, of a woman asserting her autonomy in a male-dominated professional realm. Review: ‘Eva Hesse’ Offers a Moving Portrait of an Artist’s Brief Life 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z These are perceived as hard things to learn that signify a greater mastery of the field concerned. For a satisfied life, become a god of small things | Robert Twigger 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Talk of growing mastery, conflict, stormy emotions and great deeds remained just talk, undramatized. Dance Review: Hula by Na Kinimakalehua at Montclair State - Review 2011-10-25T22:02:14Z The book is persuasively rendered by narrator Bahni Turpin in her quiet, melodious voice, as she calls upon her remarkable mastery of accents. Review | 3 great new audiobooks for your drive, your walk, your laundry folding ... 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z All major European states imposed colonial mastery over Africa and Asia. The best of times 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s easy to prefer the curation and control — another “Mr. Robot” preoccupation — we bring to our online identities, or that a gifted hacker brings to his mastery of lines of code and complex networks. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 2: Elliot Hits Undo 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z On a first viewing what impresses me most in “The Uncommitted” is Mr. Taylor’s sheer mastery of stagecraft. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-15T22:27:24Z In Se7en and Fight Club, Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues in a murder thriller. Gone Girl Plays a Fatal Game of Love and Marriage 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Best of all, perhaps, is the playful Aria variata, a youthful work foreshadowing Bach’s mastery of the variations form. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Mendelssohn, Wagner and More 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z They showed the intent seriousness of, say, a tyro equestrian subsumed in the all-encompassing effort of mastery. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z But he used his visual imagination and technical mastery to turn those anxieties into movies that would reshape cinematic history. Review: In ‘Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life,’ Fear Drives a Master of Suspense 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z There were classes on “mindful stress mastery” and the “ABCs of emotional intelligence.” Massaging Your Soul 2014-04-25T17:49:24Z In her haphazard new book “Grand Pursuit,” Ms. Nasar says she set out to tell that story through the lives of “protagonists who were instrumental in turning economics into an instrument of mastery.” Books of The Times: ?Grand Pursuit? by Sylvia Nasar - Review 2011-12-01T22:20:40Z Saulnier showed his mastery of suspense in his previous film, Blue Ruin, and the tension in Green Room reaches new heights. The best films of 2016 ... that you probably didn't see 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z I’ve written here recently about his mastery of melodrama as a modern, ironic variety of tragedy, and about the powerful visual style with which he invokes that idea. Douglas Sirk’s Glorious Cinema of Outsiders 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Sir Simon Rattle was a luxurious presence in the pit, and an interesting match for Stemme: He, like her, exuded cool mastery and a touch of calculation. For its most glittering evening, the Met opts for a dark ‘Tristan.’ Good for them. 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Both contended for mastery; each sought control of the plot. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z This book shows the mastery of Johnson in politics, and also the mastery of Caro in biography. Robert Caro's 'The Passage of Power': the death of a president, the birth of a new vision 2012-05-09T21:15:04Z When news of his death spread Saturday, much of the immediate tribute came in the form of defense of King’s mastery of the “dumb question,” and rightly so. Perspective | Larry King’s long run made the case that there’s no such thing as a dumb question 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Elizabeth trusts science and her mastery of it, and she wants her audience to apply its principles in those home laboratories known as kitchens. "Sometimes you burn the lasagna": "Lessons in Chemistry" creator Lee Eisenberg talks cooking good TV 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z Karl's a rubbish killer, the body count he's clocked up so far being more down to his unique brand of nonchalant opportunism than any real criminal mastery. The month in soaps: Coronation Street rises to the occasion 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z Even given good material, execution comes down to voice — every blogger’s power crystal — and this is where she shows total mastery. Some Personal News From Samantha Irby 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Ms. DiDonato’s mastery of the gymnastic elements of bel canto singing is absolute, and the seeming ease with which she binds them into the musical and emotional context of each phrase and scene is breathtaking. Review: ‘La Donna del Lago,’ With Fiercely Athletic Vocals 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z This approach, he says, promises a “mastery” of no less than “all of literature’s inventions, unlocking secret power after secret power.” Art’s Greatest Enemy Might Not Be Science 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z I’d prefer to see my daughter drilling long division unto mastery instead of pondering the cognitive mysteries of Common Core math, whose deep inspiration seems to be Cubism. The Poisonous Reach of the College-Admissions Process 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In 1940, Menzies received a special Oscar for his mastery of Technicolor, a nascent process that achieved new expressive heights in the film. William Cameron Menzies’s film work brought aesthetic to screen 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Here again, an Italian artist demonstrates his mastery in the use of toned color. Art Review: A Masterly World Apart 2011-01-14T12:00:04Z These extremely complex and beautiful works show Michelangelo's power of invention, the immense creativity and mastery in the medium. Michelangelo drawings displayed 2010-02-18T16:15:00Z The orchestra and chorus did their parts with expected mastery. Music Review: Exploring Variations in a Christmastime Favorite 2010-12-08T23:09:00Z Her technical mastery of the pieces, which demand breakneck finger work and stunts like keyboard-sweeping glissandos, was exceptional, he said. Yuja Wang, Daredevil Pianist, Takes on a Musical Everest 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z I asked my students whether, if homework were to completely disappear, they would be able achieve the same mastery of the material. Motherlode Blog: Students need homework, but not all homework is what students need. 2012-02-03T17:39:31Z In between takes, Mr. Lorre considered the question of why, after years of mastery with the multicam, he took the gamble. ‘Young Sheldon’ Reinvents ‘The Big Bang Theory’ Formula. Will It Work? 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z This is feeling leavened by a great mastery of form, a concentrated use of composition and cutting that moves the psychological drama toward spiritual issues. DVDs: Tough Women and Flawed Men 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z In an ideal world, when someone arrives onstage who has something to say about music, it would be nice to explore the new, rather than test them, yet again, on their mastery of the old. At NSO, German composer leads French music — and his own 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Her mastery of form and technique allows her body to move with amplitude, filling the space around her. An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths in ‘the Land of Discovery’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z What is not in doubt is the mastery of the unknown artist who carved the Vishnu from Dong Nai. Review: Lifting Hazy Veils From Centuries of Vietnamese Art 2010-02-26T18:30:00Z Unclear, though certificates on the walls congratulate her on her mastery of ear candling and reiki. ‘Mrs. Mayfield’s Fifth-Grade Class of ’93 20-Year Reunion’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Exquisitely done, Dou’s scene lacks the vigor and mastery of Rembrandt’s art. Auctions: Bring on the Old Masters 2011-02-04T12:00:05Z The conductor of “Lady Macbeth,” Keri-Lynn Wilson, was also making her debut, and showed mastery of Shostakovich’s score, which is in a savage, if often eerily beautiful, mode that would have stunned Donizetti. Is It the End of an Era at the Metropolitan Opera? 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Selma shows King’s mastery at maneuvering and manipulating. REVIEW: 'Selma': The Film of the Year — But 1965 or 2014? 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z The two are positioned in opposite rooms, with Degas confirming his mastery of a medium he loved, and Millet emerging as unfairly discounted. ‘French Pastels: Treasures From the Vault’ Review: Delicate and Delightful 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Alongside this is a mystical strain that seems peculiarly English, seeking to "describe / the mastery of flowers / grazing the earth // like translations done / without dictionaries". Unsent: New and Selected Poems 1980-2012 by Penelope Shuttle - review 2012-12-28T22:55:07Z "A comprehensive knowledge of Indian cooking ... helps you when delving into cuisines," she explains, "because of the necessary mastery of spices and ingredients." India's Spice Girls: American Culinary Superstars 2010-05-20T11:30:00Z “That the novel succeeds so well is a tribute to Phillips’s mastery of tone.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z And in the heart of the American capital, the Russians showed their mastery of both Russian and American composers. Perspective | The concert was about unity; the message was all Russian 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Rarely do singers show such mastery of physical gesture; his use of his hands – often a weak spot on the concert platform – was masterly. Gerald Finley/Julius Drake – review 2013-01-16T18:11:48Z Indeed, mastery of the bicycle as a metaphor for women’s mastery over their own lives was the message of Frances Willard’s 1895 book “A Wheel Within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle.” The wheels that set her free: The humble bicycle continues to be a key to women’s empowerment 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The New York Voices have a smooth blend and a comfortable mastery of pop-jazz harmony not unlike the far more vigorous, swinging and adventurous Manhattan Transfer. Music Review: ?In Perfect Harmony? in Lyrics & Lyricists at 92nd Street Y 2012-03-25T21:32:16Z None of these solos are long, and none match the compositional mastery of Humphrey’s “Ecstatic.” Review: A Rare Dive Into the History of Dance Pioneers 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z His hunger for something new led him to Paris for six years, where Mr. Kelly looked at a lot of work by Picasso, among other greats, absorbing his mastery of line and composition. Art and Design: Ellsworth Kelly?s Wood Sculptures in Boston 2011-11-27T05:07:13Z The contrast between Matthews’s more raucous approach and Debussy’s own mastery was clear with the shifting, swirling clouds of “Nuages,” the first of the “Trois Nocturnes.” Runnicles and NSO go French 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Teaching mastery over unruly emotions, “it met the needs of the time, most cogently and urgently,” Mr. McHenry said. Want to Change Your Life? A New Exhibition Offers a Path. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Evidence typically shows that people with mastery goals ultimately outperform those with performance goals. Why You Shouldn't Do Your Child's Homework 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Mountain tracks the dispiriting consequences: the all-consuming ski resorts and road networks that nibble away at the wildernesses, “replacing mystery with mastery”. Mountain: a movie that reaches new peaks of cinematography 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Vanderbilt wasn’t about to spend 10,000 hours on any one skill in order to attain mastery. In ‘Beginners,’ a Writer Takes Up Chess and Surfing and Singing and Juggling and … 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z All three singers showed mastery of Mr. Sciarrino’s vocal style and gave compelling performances. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z Worrell was among the first musicians to use a Moog synthesizer, and his mastery brought comparisons to Jimi Hendrix's innovations on guitar. Bernie Worrell, masterful P-Funk keyboardist, dead at 72 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Orstavik’s mastery of perspective and clean, crackling sentences prevent sentimentality or sensationalism from trailing this story of a woman and her accidentally untended child. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Capuano continued his mysterious mastery over the Cubs, going from Castro's single in the first to Castro's single in the sixth without allowing a hit. Capuano continues mastery over Cubs with 5-1 victory 2012-05-06T01:09:00Z But it scarcely seemed credible that this knack for writing for a mainstream audience in a melodic, romantic style co-existed with his mastery of serialism and 12-tone techniques. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 2012-12-26T18:24:33Z Ms. Mutter’s mastery is such an integral component of her playing that there was no trace of virtuosity for its own sake. 2010-02-11T08:29:00Z You know the legend about Johnson: He met the devil at the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 in Clarksdale, Miss., where he exchanged his soul for mastery of the guitar. Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z But his brush strokes convey their own sense of urgency and speed, which downplays mastery for the sake of direct communication. A Final Rhapsody in Blue From Matthew Wong 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z But each time, they get a little closer to mastery. ‘Code Name: Cynthia’: True story of a Washington society spy 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z A wild work, effervescent and despondent, Hayes’s collection of sonnets reminds us that the mastery of time is one of poetry’s important functions, though sonnets only buy it back in hasty fourteen-line bursts. The Poetry I Was Grateful For in 2018 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Cognetti’s mix of patient observation and sharp insight into the natural world recalls the mastery of Helen Macdonald’s “H Is for Hawk.” There’s More to Italian Fiction Than Elena Ferrante 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Jansch was a founding member of the British folk group Pentangle and had inspired a generation of rock and folk guitarists with his acoustic mastery. Folk legend Bert Jansch dies at 67 2011-10-05T12:55:32Z A work of impressive formal mastery and subtle thematic relationships throughout, it nonetheless left a somewhat wan impression, the material drifting by in an undifferentiated stream, like Gabriel Faure or Ernest Chausson. Violinist Kurkowicz provides break from standard fare Seimetz proved a mastery of subjectivity and time, of the incarnation of the inner life, in “Sun Don’t Shine.” “The Girlfriend Experience” Is Not an Experience 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Her exquisite, sometimes harrowing dramatic delivery and mastery of pitch and dynamics remain firmly in play, and she brought the house down. Music Review: Valery Gergiev Conducts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra 2014-04-13T21:53:17Z But, for a composer of Salonen’s mastery, its use was surprisingly timid and restrained. Waiting for a Masterpiece from Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z What endures is the mastery and excitement of the glorious Boyz N the Hood, and the heroic way Singleton strove to build on it, with new themes, approaches and ideas. John Singleton: maverick director with a radical edge 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Such rebalancing may not be “mastery” in the fullest sense, but it will generally reduce risk and often enhance a portfolio’s return. ‘Mastering the Market Cycle’ Review: The Dangers of Optimism 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z He styled himself “The Man Mad about Drawing”, and his mastery of the abstract quality of line that so captivated the early modernists in Europe is everywhere in evidence. Riding the crest 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z It’s Mann’s masterwork in the classic sense of the term—a proof of his mastery, which is prodigious. The Stylish, Empty Realism of Michael Mann 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z But Hall's unique mastery of the female gaze, a vision that casts the world as a place that appreciates someone like Uncle Clifford, is worth hailing. All hail Uncle Clifford on "P-Valley," a vision of Black queerness not seen anywhere else on TV 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z His mastery of the different voices of his characters is quite extraordinary. How Books Led a Young Jane Goodall to Live Among the Chimps 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The footage of her on the road with her current band, Retrovirus, shows her mastery of live performance and also highlights her very urban sense of sarcasm; sometimes she suggests no-wave’s answer to Fran Lebowitz. ‘Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over’ Review: A Punk Provocateur Endures 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The program opened with an account of the mysterious, Greek-inspired “Helios” overture, an immediate show of Mr. Gilbert’s sympathetic mastery despite some initial passing concerns about horn intonation. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Continues an Exploration 2014-03-13T22:40:45Z His mastery of style and dramatic pacing were very much in evidence Saturday night at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in the second opera of the cycle, Charpentier's "Medea." French Baroque treasure rescued in stormy 'Medea' 2011-04-24T22:52:00Z Here, as a matinee idol manqué, he shows a leading man’s suave mastery of more conventional showbiz charms. Critic?s Notebook: Her Sequins, Plumes and Foghorn Voice 2011-03-28T22:30:28Z The movie turned the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 into an action-melodrama, but Watts’s mastery of bodily suffering transcended the film’s racial turpitude. ‘The Desperate Hour’ Review: An Exercise in Panic 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Mr. McCartney was encyclopedic, demonstrating his mastery of multitudinous idioms and applying all his charm and skill to hits and non-hits alike. Review: Paul McCartney and Neil Young Share a Bill, and Some Songs 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z But your mastery over the sword’s abilities mirrors Red’s growing attachment with the voice embedded within it in a profound way. Reviews — Murdered: Soul Suspect, Transistor, Among the Sleep 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z She has the instincts of an Indian tracker and wields her weapons with unerring mastery. | 'Centurion': Two Vastly Different Enemies Share a Common Thirst for Blood 2010-08-27T00:01:00Z Villagey: If perfect is the enemy of the good, maybe mastery is, too? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Can this friendship go the distance? 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Rattigan's mastery of the well-made play is to find the contradictions within the form, the desires that do not fit the conventional narratives. No fogey 2010-06-09T14:09:00Z His flawless delivery of the Rachmaninov, regarded as the most fiendish of all concertos, only confirmed his keyboard mastery. Sinfonia Cymru/Jones 2010-05-03T21:30:00Z But his premature mastery of the standup arts guarantees an amusing hour. Kevin Bridges 2010-08-16T16:31:00Z There are more famous chefs in the United States, but few whose technical mastery is as deeply respected in the business. At In Situ in San Francisco, Originality in Careful Copies 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Elsewhere in Ghent, Eyckian-themed events will explore the work of an artist renowned for his mastery of light and detail. The adoration of Ghent: art, history and flavours in Flanders 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Deflect the nosy relatives by demonstrating your Jedi-like mastery of these Washington skills. 2014 Snip & Save Thanksgiving talking points Maybe because there is only one Alexander Toradze — and it's hard to imagine any other pianist playing this wild and woolly concerto with the same degree of authority, mastery and utter abandon. Review: Symphony does Prokofiev proud 2010-04-02T18:57:00Z Russell has gone in front of the jury twice, and lost twice, not receiving a single vote from the most recent jury; this isn't mastery of the game, like he'd have you believe. Sandra wins "Survivor," but can the show be saved? 2010-05-17T12:35:00Z For mastery of texture, color and invention, Mr. Anderson sets standards. Opera Review: A Review of Julian Anderson’s ‘Thebans’ for the English National Opera 2014-05-05T12:53:03Z Dries Van Noten opened his show with a group of austere, charcoal-gray suits, representing a significant departure for a designer known for his mastery of both color and prints. Perspective | The message from the Paris runways is simple: Buy a suit and get to work 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z That kind of criminal mastery is largely missing from the second season. How to fix the Netflix fantasy "Shadow and Bone" as Season 2 crashes to Earth 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Hank is compelling as a character, especially under Odenkirk's humble guy mastery. With a storyline about the adjunct crisis, “Lucky Hank” moves to the head of the class 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z He played this concerto with a marvelous serenity, reflecting the confident awareness that neither he nor Mozart had anything to prove; mastery, in their respective spheres, was simply taken for granted. Impressive guest turn by symphony’s former principal horn |Classical review 2013-05-03T18:32:51Z The resulting Afar magazine story documented Fromartz’s own slow rise to baguette mastery. Home bread master Samuel Fromartz learns by doing — and writing Overcame it to achieve mastery of the language, inspired by the Beano. Boris Johnson and Winston Churchill: can you tell them apart? 2013-06-04T15:35:01Z This new novel displays the mastery of the early and the passion of late Le Carré. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – review 2013-04-20T14:00:02Z It takes a long time for a person's mastery of an instrument and their musical imagination to become one. Tod Machover: how to crowdsource a symphony 2013-03-19T20:00:01Z It’s the only work of criticism that brings me to the brink of tears, such is its mastery and the intense flow of its feeling. Books of The Times: A Lifetime of Anxiety and Lust 2011-05-25T22:16:59Z Nabokov had an unsurpassed sense of a story’s structure, and the “Camera Obscura” revisions reveal his growing mastery, in the nineteen-thirties, of form, proportion, and pace. How Nabokov Retranslated “Laughter in the Dark” 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z There were a few rough edges in this opening set, but the players showed an impressive mastery of the material, which often wriggled free of stable definitions. Music Review: Danilo Pérez Celebrates Panama at Jazz Standard 2014-02-07T21:55:14Z It sold on a single bid against the reserve, as if its mastery was lost on most potential buyers. When Discourse Has the Upper Hand Over Art 2010-06-25T11:00:00Z Research on well-being – the outcome closest to happiness that psychologists will promise – centers on three core factors: health, relationships and a sense of mastery in one’s chosen pursuits. Motherlode Blog: Don’t Make Your Children the Exception to Every Rule 2013-07-07T12:40:38Z This was just one highlight of a show rich in detail, passion and mastery. Stevie Wonder brings it all back home | Concert review 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Daniels’s unfussy mastery is useful throughout, especially in toning down some of Mr. Sorkin’s showier attempts to punch up the story. Review: A Broadway ‘Mockingbird,’ Elegiac and Effective 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s what made her special, a mastery of these tiny gestures that divine everyday sadness from private anguish. The Melancholy Pop Idol Who Haunts China 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z The beanbag study focused on mastery of motor skills, but much evidence has shown that the underlying principle applies to cognitive learning as well. Ditch the 10,000 hour rule! Why Malcolm Gladwell’s famous advice falls short 2014-04-20T15:30:00Z Had I known it would take me 10 years to be able to write the way I want to write — and to feel like I have mastery over my writing — I never would have started. Liz Phair Is Not Your Feminist Spokesmodel 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z And Laurie Sansom, who directed brilliantly the National's imports of Williams's Spring Storm and O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon from Northampton, once again shows his mastery of depicting fractured families. The Holy Rosenbergs - review 2011-03-16T23:57:33Z With more than 30 albums to his credit, Slim also was known for an encyclopedic mastery of the blues, Salzman said. Chicago bluesman Magic Slim dead at 75 2013-02-22T04:08:38Z There have been exceptions: Flannery O'Connor, whose mastery of language and psychological insight has few rivals, was a devout Catholic and saw nothing remarkable about her belief in transubstantiation. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z She continued, noting how the Friends sets require the barest of construction, “LEGO Friends doesn’t give girls the same sense of mastery and accomplishment that it gives boys.” Girls would love science, if it was more like Katy Perry 2012-06-25T15:25:00Z And the mastery doesn’t stop there: look at the production design, direction, cinematography, sound design, the incredible writing, and just about everything else. The sounds of “Fargo,” 1979: The musical masterminds behind TV’s best soundtrack 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z “I’ve learned more about Petipa in these last three months than I learned in my whole life — his phenomenal mastery of the craft, finding the threads he follows from the beginning to the end.” Ratmansky’s New ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Looks Back to 1890 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The show itself is a tight, twisty ride, and it is additional evidence of Macfadyen’s mastery of “wait … is that guy dumber than he seems, or smarter than he seems?” Miss ‘Succession’ Already? Here’s What to Watch Next 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z In recent years, few Danish men showed mastery of this feat. Royal Danish Ballet Performs Works by August Bournonville 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z But mastery of plot might not get our android very far. Empathy machines: what will happen when robots learn to write film scripts? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z One could write an essay, for example, on Allen's largely unsung mastery of the long take... if one were a film school grad or Cahiers critic, but you get the idea. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z His chief comedic achievement is his mastery of the song parody. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Stephen Hough seems to have reached a plateau where his colossal keyboard mastery is beyond doubt. Stephen Hough – review 2012-10-10T14:25:13Z Her mastery is of a different kind, with effortless coloratura and downy, unforced tone. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z These are tasks that are learned over time, but that are difficult to describe in words or to articulate when or how mastery was achieved. “I don’t care who I am or what I did”: What the Bourne films get right and wrong about amnesia 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z The next step for the IBM machine and its programmers: taking its mastery of the arcane and applying it to help doctors plow through blizzards of medical information. Machines beat us at our own game: What can we do? 2011-02-17T13:31:05Z It’s got everything: extremes of wealth, goodies, baddies, the intangibility of beauty and desire, history, scholarship, mastery, you name it. Hannah Rothschild Adds Novelist to Her Résumé 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Nick Cave is famous for his particular mastery of words, which he puts to use most notably as a songwriter, but also as a screenwriter and novelist. Nick Cave looks into his dark mind with ‘20,000 Days on Earth’ documentary Fitzsimmons used “The Tide Pulls From the Moon” off his 2011 album “Gold in the Shadow” to remind the dinner crowd of his mastery over moody, atmospheric rock. William Fitzsimmons charms at the Triple Door | Concert review 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z In his senior years, Hanks has a new mastery of playing iconic real-life figures who are part of the US’s pop-cultural landscape. The 25 best Tom Hanks films – ranked! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Degrees in props mastery are available, but many props people learn through apprenticeships with veteran props masters. Theater Props Masters Gather at the Public Theater 2012-09-11T00:26:08Z The manufacture of such copper objects required territorial control and trade; it demanded the mastery of specialized crafts and techniques; and the process required the exercise of wealth and power. Exhibition Review: ‘Masters of Fire,’ a Trove of Copper Age Artifacts From Israel 2014-02-21T23:33:18Z But with the proper gear and mastery from the two chefs’ meticulous instructions, it’s a technique with almost limitless applications. The ‘Pig Beach BBQ Cookbook’ Teaches You How to Tame Smoke 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z By the side of the absolute mastery of the plot, character and style displayed in her latest novel, “The House of Mirth” seems almost crude. Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Olney spent a lot of time in this house, cooking with Lulu, whose mastery as an instinctive and encyclopedic home cook eventually led him to write an entire book about her: “Lulu’s Provençal Table.” A tiny Frenchwoman has had a huge impact on food in America 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z A mastery of martial arts and dedication to rough justice, certainly. In 'TMNT / Batman,' James Tynion takes the turtles to Gotham, IDW panel announces 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Yet her mastery of comics, her pyrotechnic drawings, and her nested narratives are already placing her among the greatest practitioners of the form. A Graphic Novel About a Young Girl, a Murder, and the Allure of Monsters 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Most of Robbins’s early ballets show just how right for Broadway his talent was: They have fabulous cartoon vitality, a natural mastery of vernacular idioms and wonderful contrasts of tone. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z He’d already learned to scam his followers with his supposed mastery of telepathy and faith healing. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Advertisement He had kept the business rights to the Forum in Japan, and for several years, under the rubric of “mastery,” he conducted seminars for professionals coping with Japan’s financial crisis of the early 1990s. The Return of Werner Erhard, Father of Self-Help 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Her mastery in delineating the nuanced difference between the two characters shows the enjoyment she took in creating each woman. The joy of Jessica Walter's final "Archer" missions before our favorite terrible mother abandons us 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Bishop had been practicing the art of losing since infancy; art had become her one means of mastery. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z And when mastery of a craft is the measure, Michael Jackson’s divine abilities remain the yardstick by which others are measured and against which today’s masters still measure themselves. Text of Jackson estate statement on 10th death anniversary 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z They also demonstrate a mastery of tonal values that almost reads as photographic. Art Review: ‘Unknown Corot: Unpublished Drawings’ at Jill Newhouse 2012-07-05T19:50:44Z Few humans share Greene’s mastery of both the latest cosmological science and English prose. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It’s a way of frustrating expectations of artistic mastery; it’s also a bit of a ruse. Review: Drawings? Maybe, but Certainly the Art of Frustration 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Now, mastery of a skill set is the new "I can't even." Joshua Weissman's cinnamon French toast has nothing to apologize for 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z One of his first was with Marilyn Horne, the legendary American mezzo-soprano famous for her mastery of demanding Rossini arias. Portrait of a young singer on the cusp of stardom 2011-05-28T22:31:06Z His reaction was to, with great mastery, pick fights on completely unrelated topics to knock me off track, and then to steal my credit card while I slept. My parents are killing my crackhead brother 2012-09-03T17:00:00Z It lacks the brilliance of the truly banal, trying hard to spoof – or celebrate – too many things without proving any mastery of one. New band of the day: The Winter Olympics (No 1,368) 2012-10-09T16:49:54Z While the production was fairly simple, the show was still exciting and entertaining, thanks to the musical mastery of Auerbach and Carney. Review: The Black Keys’ Tacoma Dome show proves arena tours don’t need to be flashy to be exciting 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z In breaking open this classic form, Bessone unleashes the fears, violence and fantasies of mastery that undergird the tradition of the female nude. Women, divorce and art that turns shame into celebration at Gavlak gallery 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Though the Tacoma Dome is often a frightful echo chamber, Brooks showed his mastery as a performer by turning in a strong vocal performance throughout that was aided by his longtime, crackerjack band. Garth Brooks at Tacoma Dome review: a joyous romp through his greatest hits 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Michelangelo and the mastery of drawing | Art and design | The ... 5 Women Accuse the Architect Richard Meier of Sexual Harassment 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z As a veteran newspaper shooter, Van Riper developed a mastery of monochromatic images, although his blacks are too intense for newsprint. Review | In the galleries: Artists create a multi-work homage to a teacher and a comrade 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z It’s both bone-crunching and delightful, pairing genuine action mastery with clockwork slapstick ingenuity. The Pleasure of Watching Charlize Theron Throw a Punch 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z As the tension builds to its climax, the film manifests what the critic Arthur Vesselo called Hitchcock's mastery of contrast, "balancing the normal against the abnormal, slowness against speed, sound against silence, humour against terror". Alfred Hitchcock: from silent film director to inventor of modern horror 2012-06-15T21:55:07Z His mastery over his material makes the novel compulsively readable in spite of its epic scope. After 'The Cartel,' Don Winslow's cop novel 'The Force' is sneakily subversive 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The result, says Kennedy, is that "philosophical masterpieces end up sounding like shallow showpieces, designed merely to show off technical mastery of the violin". Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z And it requires mastery of analytical tools as well as possession of the crap-detector that is the time-honoured prerequisite of investigative journalism. Fake Twitter accounts and the danger for politicians 2012-11-18T00:06:11Z Most important, of course, is that we have the astonishing art these tools produced, work that defined mastery as an exercise of formal skill so virtuosic that it becomes its own form of radical invention. Bamigboye, Nigeria’s Tour-de-Force Sculptor, Claims His Fame in the World 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Taken together, these books showcase Whitehead’s mastery over structure, history and atmosphere, not to mention a zest, shown throughout his career, for savvily mixing the palettes of literary and genre fiction. Colson Whitehead’s Warmhearted Novel of a 1960s Crime Caper in Harlem 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z On Sunday, Thibaudet played the jazzy, mercurial G Major Piano Concerto of Ravel with his countryman Morlot and the orchestra, proving again the brilliance of his technique and his stylistic mastery of this repertoire. French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet demonstrates his mastery of Ravel 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Its first readers praised the poem in varying, even opposing ways—where one heard Anglo-Saxon grit, another heard refreshingly plain speech; where one found heartfelt expression, another found allusive mastery. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Through five features, from “Pi” to “Black Swan,” Mr. Aronofsky has refined his taste for extremity and his mastery of a queasy, feverish camera style. Movie Review: Russell Crowe Confronts Life’s Nasty Weather in ‘Noah’ 2014-03-27T18:05:40Z Like that earlier novel, “Manalive” similarly touches on the allegorical but emphasizes, besides misdirection and surprise, its author’s mastery of social comedy. Review | The perfect book for this year’s coincidence, Easter on April Fools’ Day 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z When tension does bubble up, during the play’s final encounter, it appears inevitable and is astutely observed without feeling writerly, showcasing Joseph’s mastery over the way everyday conversation can belie or reveal social realities. ‘King James’ Review: We’ll Always Have LeBron 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z His marvelous mastery of the vocabulary of academic ballet is subtly combined with a sense of sublimated acting. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at New York City Center 2012-10-22T04:10:05Z Pierre Boulez, who conducted the premiere, said Mr. Cerha had worked “with great care, competence and mastery.” Friedrich Cerha, 96, Who Finished Another Composer’s Masterpiece, Dies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Her defiantly counterintuitive mastery of her medium couldn’t be more impressive. Z. Vanessa Helder: a Northwest artist rediscovered at Tacoma Art Museum 2013-09-08T14:16:08Z Rust and Bone Jacques Audiard's mastery of all modern cinematic elements was finally appreciated at the London film festival, where it won best film. Trailer trash 2012-12-30T00:06:06Z Unlike the Formalists and Lyris, which are mainly known locally, the Calder is a full-time ensemble, and its international prominence grows every year, as does its impressive mastery. A weekend flock of L.A. string quartets 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z That was the other key to her mastery — what she asked from her audience. How Princess Diana Created a New Era of Celebrity 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z For Levit, the concerto has “a great mastery of writing and level of seriousness and dedication to every little detail.” Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z She said that at the height of her mastery of a piece, the music emerges so naturally that she feels as if she had composed it. Yuja Wang, Daredevil Pianist, Takes on a Musical Everest 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z He casually wrought chaos with an unpredictable mix of skits and bits, and an easy mastery of those in-between moments that make or break a TV host. That Kovacs Touch: Comedy?s Lunatic Fringe 2011-05-06T23:24:49Z During this period he developed his mastery of etching and other print media, while his drawings allowed him to achieve a remarkable directness, always working from life and finishing the image in a single sitting. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z The praise stems from his cinematic mastery and treatment of profound themes; the misunderstanding, from the conventional wisdom that because Bergman treated profound themes, his work must be a slog. Review: ‘Searching for Ingmar Bergman,’ a Misunderstood Artist 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z That mastery is very evident in the Burlington Cartoon, which belongs to the National Gallery and will be loaned to the Louvre next year to complete this unique swap. Leonardo swap will make for the greatest gathering of his work to date 2011-07-28T10:39:30Z Galanos excelled in each of these, and displayed a special mastery over silk chiffon, a fabric of unruly softness that disses all but the most precise designers. ‘James Galanos: Design Integrity’ Review: The West Coast King of Fashion 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Our mastery over manifold aspects of life has deluded us into thinking that we have bent the planet to our will. French Photographer Wins Prix Pictet 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z He is clearly addicted to that place where labor is transformed through mastery into art. Before Glitter and Glue Sticks, ‘Craeft’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Wink’s characters long for mastery that eludes them. Review: In ‘Dog Run Moon,’ Men So Lonesome, They Could Cry 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Part of her brilliance as a filmmaker lies in her mastery of the cinematic canons she subjects to thorough critical scourging. ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But in nearly four decades her voice evolves, revealling a steadily growing mastery in matters beyond the kitchen: the craft of making public television, for example, and theories of education and academia. The Passionate, Progressive Politics of Julia Child 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Falconry requires a balance between mastery of wildness and acceptance of that wildness: an idea that is not unproblematic, as Ms Macdonald acknowledges. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Körbes took this restriction as an opportunity: Her fascinating mastery of arm movement was poetry in itself. Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Their beats are infectious and these artists have true lyrical mastery. As a white parent, I solemnly swear to never do this 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z But the mastery of tonal color really stole the show. Simons in confident Christian Dior style evolution 2013-03-02T00:08:15Z Does anyone seriously believe that an actor who's already demonstrated mastery of a given role is suddenly going to forget how to play that role? Emmy Nominations 2018: ‘Game of Thrones’ and Netflix Lead the Way 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Nor can Blanchett's comportment and her mastery of the sort of sharp, society-polite expressiveness that either sends chills down a person's spine or makes a feminist want to sign up for kickboxing classes. In "Mrs. America," Cate Blanchett shines as a frigid firebrand who challenges the feminist movement 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter agreed, saying despite the all-star ensemble cast, it is Lane who does the heavy lifting "with his mastery of the delayed double take, the arched eyebrow, the wry aside." Nathan Lane shines in Broadway comedy 'It's Only a Play' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z But the more I thought about it, the more impressed I found myself with the mastery of tension and tone writer-director Craig Zobel displayed, and with the precise performances he drew from his actors. Craig Zobel picks 5 great psychological thrillers 2012-08-30T18:31:05Z If not everything else on the two-hour program achieved similar mastery, that was understandable; the artists here were on the younger side. Review: Iranian Female Composers Speak Indirectly to the Moment 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z So is his technical mastery of each, which has an allure of its own. Menil’s New Drawing Institute: A Full-Service Home for Fragile Art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “During each era of her career, Patha demonstrated a full mastery of painting, presenting canvases that wholly embody her imagery and vocabulary with an unwavering voice and shocking vigor,” according to the museum. A painter’s way with color, a swashbuckling adventure 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z All the essential ingredients of his later mastery of music drama are there in embryonic form, though still couched in the traditional forms of 19th-century opera. This week's new live music 2012-12-15T00:05:21Z But Golding is clear about two things; it is an illusion of power – Golding refers to Henry having "the illusion of mastery" – and it is also the absorption itself that is beyond mere happiness. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Within the carnivalesque atmosphere and high-spirited revelry of Moore’s show, there’s a master of political rhetoric at work, and he devotes that mastery to a high patriotic calling. What Michael Moore Understands About Hillary Clinton 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z His mastery of it soon proved his ticket to other bands and eventually to headlining his own group. Johnny Otis of 'Willie and the Hand Jive' dies 2012-01-19T18:01:06Z Its most bravura trick is rooted less in a display of mastery than one of vulnerability. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Character research was inseparable from mastery of the discipline. Film: Enter the Teacher to the Dragon of Martial Arts Films 2011-01-23T02:30:15Z Among them you would have to include Garrick Ohlsson, who not only plays with resourceful mastery but seems to play everything, including all the works of Chopin. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z There is a sense of simultaneous delight and mastery as his teddy bear characters romp through hoary horror movie plots and deconstruct their procedures. Comics masters 2012-06-12T00:00:00Z Nowhere was Mr. Carpenter’s mastery more evident than in the movie’s opening — a five-minute single take from the killer’s point of view. ‘Halloween’ at 40: Their ‘Horrible Idea’ Became a Horror Classic 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z But these works also demonstrate his enormous facility, and his mastery of more than just one style, mood and mode of design. For this Dutch master, a cigar is rarely just a cigar 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Her soft hair has been rendered with smoky, blurry brush strokes that anticipate Leonardo’s mastery of sfumato by decades. Jan Van Eyck’s Diamond-Hard Brilliance, as You’ll Never See It Again 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z I began to study on my own because I didn’t even have money to be able to take a course, and over the years I’ve come to have a better mastery of the language. The Colombian Rock Star Juanes on MTV 2012-05-27T00:43:09Z Now we want to convince those same curious friends to love Mozart, whose mastery spanned genres and whose influence was profound. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mozart (Published 2020) 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The Spanish empire that helped install Cosimo in power was a Latin-infused institution, where mastery of the language marked one as educated and elite. Analysis | At the Met, beautiful paintings that won’t love you back 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Trump’s preeminence in this line testifies to his mastery of the mechanisms of publicity. Trump, Jobs, Zuckerberg: We idolize jerks 2012-08-12T12:00:00Z Her work demonstrates mastery of three different modes: collage, line etching and three-plate color printing. In the galleries: Experimenting with a classical sensibility 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z We never see if they soar or stumble, break a record or break their ankle; what matters is their collective concentration, their shared mastery. 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z It’s more than welcome: It adds to our knowledge of Cunningham’s mastery. Review: French Dancers Show Three Faces of Merce Cunningham 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z This wonderful man taught me so much and his mastery of musical theater was without equal.” ‘Cabaret,’ ‘Phantom of the Opera’ and More: Hal Prince’s Hits Transformed Broadway 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z His mastery of the verbally obscene apparently also extends to press releases. Al Pacino will star in new David Mamet play 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Their new films are works of vigorous mastery, each one focused on a real-life chronicle of violence, betrayal and sacrifice. Old Masters and Fresh Surprises at the New York Film Festival 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Gardner skips back and forth between Johanna and Kidd, capturing the tempo of conversation — of her increasing mastery of English and growing high spirits, and his occasional exasperation. Best audiobooks of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z It’s both a challenge and a calling card, in which Ms. Fargeat at once exposes what’s wrong with her chosen genre and demonstrates her mastery of it. Review: In ‘Revenge,’ the Trophy Turns Hunter 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z “The technical mastery is the first thing that strikes you,” he said. Marilyn Minter, an Artist Who Resonates and Repels 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z As with all of the other audacious sci-fi flops I’ve written about here, there’s a profound disconnect between the film’s visual mastery and its relative indifference to everything else. Follywood: how Valerian earns its place among film's strangest big budget flops 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Nemr is a masterly tapper, yet much of his mastery was wasted on baggy talking-while-tapping speeches, recounting the company’s origins and why some of the proceeds would be going to an orphanage in Lebanon. Review: Cats Paying Dues Tap and Sing, Don’t Meow 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Bergonzi was particularly known for his mastery of portamento, the technique of seamlessly gliding from one note to the next. Carlo Bergonzi, celebrated Italian tenor and interpreter of Verdi, dies at 90 And her triple mastery of words, music and moves is unmatched by any performer on Broadway at the moment. | 'Anything Goes': A Glimpse of Stocking? Shocking! 2011-04-08T02:01:03Z In this staging, by Rosemary Dunleavy and Arch Higgins, we were ideally caught between Balanchine’s mesmerizing mastery of changing geometric patterns and the image of bright, youthful graciousness embodied by each couple. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z But the research shows unequivocally that mastery and long-term retention are much better if you interleave practice than if you mass it. Ditch the 10,000 hour rule! Why Malcolm Gladwell’s famous advice falls short 2014-04-20T15:30:00Z Kawabata “for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind.” The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z James’ subtle mastery of minimalist, backbeat guitar groove is the heartbeat of both ensembles. 1 remarkable guitarist powers 2 of Seattle’s hottest bands 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Bigelow's job wrangling this orphan project into shape, and her shot-by-shot mastery of the story, should be considered no less impressive than her swaggering hero's effectiveness in defusing bombs on Baghdad streets. 'Hurt Locker' Beats 'Avatar': On the Oscar Winner, Loser 2010-03-08T18:15:00Z Neither figural nor noticeable for their mastery in wielding the brush, the Fontanas proved that for the moment, the market turnabout is only partial. Auctions: A Serious Moment for Contemporary Art 2011-07-01T13:30:36Z Why is it that for all his formidable mastery at crafting complex male characters and unflappable dialogue for them, his female leads are so often loopy and shrill? Seinfeld and Simpsons – why your favourite TV show is problematic 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Each time Carmy refutes that insinuation — his concepts has a story and a reason, and every technique that guides them into place is the result of methodical mastery. A new season "The Bear" marinates a great show into a superb exploration of purpose 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Throughout the album, Algiers lashes out at injustice, exults in its sonic mastery and insists on the life forces of solidarity and physical impact. Algiers Blasts Songs of Damage and Redemption on ‘Shook’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z But as a stout defender of Western values, and with his easy mastery of third-world civilizations, Chandu is a forerunner of Indiana Jones. Presto! Pulp and Poetry: ‘Chandu the Magician’ and ‘Stranger on the Third Floor’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Few other pianists around today play Chopin with as much understanding and poised mastery as this. Chopin: The Complete Waltzes ? review 2011-07-21T20:40:01Z Many of us have discovered that navigating by G.P.S. has undermined our mastery of city streets and perhaps even impaired our innate sense of direction. First: The Twitter Trap 2011-05-18T20:53:46Z Sanchez has impressed the judges from the beginning of the current season with her technical mastery of music, despite being the youngest contestant at age 16. Jessica Sanchez, Phillip Phillips make "Idol" final 2012-05-18T02:03:00Z Many of these young artists play various instruments, resisting the idea of technical mastery as an end goal, and see themselves as something other than entertainers. Visionary Musicians Seek Truths for the Future in a Spiritual Past 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z "His sensitivity for textures and surfaces coupled with his mastery of materials allows him to create works in a range of materials." 'Jim Dine: Sculpture' looks at pop artist's career 2011-02-01T17:04:54Z Was this artist with unrivalled mastery bereft of deep-rooted aesthetic convictions? Art review: Of Picasso and Provenance 2010-06-11T12:00:00Z As he has done so often, Mr. Schiff showed complete mastery in the French Overture and “Goldberg” Variations, his concentration and stamina clearly unaffected by the early detour. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Powley’s mastery of Mr. Stoppard’s pyrotechnic language earned her raves from critics, including Ben Brantley of The New York Times, who wrote that she “enchantingly captures the ardor of a brilliant young mind.” Breakthrough Performances of the Summer Movies Season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Saint-Saëns’s Symphony in A, composed at 15, showed a precocious mastery of devices and themes borrowed outright from Mozart and Haydn. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z Giraudo is an Argentine bassist and composer who reinforces his love for tango with a mastery of Western classical and jazz vocabulary. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The two cooking methods called for a different mastery of wood, fire and time, which seemed just right for a celebration with such ancient roots. | Sotkamo in Midsummer 2012-07-24T13:00:53Z Psychologists break down goals into two very broad categories: performance motivated versus mastery motivated. Why You Shouldn't Do Your Child's Homework 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Church was just 11 when she shot to fame with her uncanny mastery of classical standards. Charlotte Church looking past phone hacking case 2012-02-27T16:32:13Z It also provided riveting insight into the art and craft of moviemaking, revealing Hitchcock’s mastery of time and space and his unwavering preference, honed by his period of making silent movies, for image over dialogue. Review: ‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’ Revisits the Master of Suspense 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Specific elements of this elaborate work reveal Martin’s compositional skill and mastery of orchestral coloring. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z We’re developing a course on restaurant operations mastery, so that a young chef that’s opened a restaurant can become a good business person, too. Why a culinary school decided to bridge business and education 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Respighi learned his orchestration from Rimsky-Korsakov, and the unique combination of technical mastery and childlike wonder that he brought to his instrumentation became the basis of his still-persuasive style. Not Heard in New York Since 1929: Respighi’s “La Campana Sommersa” 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z “Dances in the Canebrakes,” a piano piece later orchestrated by William Grant Still, was a colorful quilt of influences — Joplin, Gershwin and some of the great Hollywood composers — knitted together in a quiet mastery. Review | BSO’s Hersh leads players in a confident ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z These works are so rarely seen on stages today not because of their composers' lack of invention or mastery of their craft, but because of problems of their consistency and stamina. Raiders of the lost arias 2011-07-21T20:31:00Z Last August, NBC’s “The Carmichael Show” took on the topic in one of the best episodes of 2015, a demonstration of mastery of form in what was just the show’s second episode. “Black-ish” is fearless: Its brilliant take on police brutality mixes heartbreak and hope 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z You know the folk legend: Down at a crossroads, Johnson bartered his soul to the devil for mastery of the blues guitar. A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Some composers cross between musicals and opera, at least, but few have his gleeful, in-your-face mastery of so many styles and forms. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Wendy Whelan, making her first City Ballet appearance since she had hip surgery, reasserted her mastery, reminding us of the great loss the company will suffer when she makes her farewell appearance in October. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Season Begins 2014-04-30T17:50:19Z But other, larger-scale patterns also show true mastery. ‘Carousel’ Dances Are a New Feather in the Enigmatic Justin Peck’s Cap 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Very occasionally, as here, he uses it to say something about nothing — about words, and information, and connectivity going away — and that takes mastery, too. Nam June Paik’s Work at Asia Society 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Although the Takarazuka performers are famously well drilled in all aspects of performance, connoisseurs of the Fosse style probably will not emerge dazzled by their mastery of his work. Review: In Takarazuka’s ‘Chicago,’ the Midwest Looks a Lot Like Japan 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z A trace of nervously fresh mastery, however, occurs at the beginning of the slow movement. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z I noticed too that he is achieving a new mastery of slow motion; he delivered some phrases as if showing us frame-by-frame breakdowns of running or gesturing. Lil Buck and Michelle Dorrance Dance Enliven Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Some viewers doubted the videos’ authenticity even as they praised Ms. Stewart’s mastery of TikTok. Martha Stewart Welcomes You to Generation Ageless 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z It required mastery of concentration-sharpening tools — visual ones called mandalas and aural ones called mantras — and living a life that many people, including other yogis, considered uncouth. Art Review: ‘Yoga: The Art of Transformation’ at Sackler Gallery 2014-01-02T22:01:19Z This is not a matter of imitation, but rather of mastery, of finding — by borrowing if necessary — a visual vocabulary suited to the story and its environment. | 'Somewhere': The Pampered Life, Viewed From the Inside 2010-12-21T23:13:01Z Mr. Hamelin’s performance, already discussed, was a more or less epic tour de force, delivered with ease and sheer mastery. ArtsBeat: The Consolations of a Schubert Sonata Surplus 2013-07-31T19:37:44Z And how does the watch industry not only survive in the digital age, but survive well enough to erect a 16,000-litre salt‑water shrine to its continued mastery of an outmoded art? Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z As a multi-instrumentalist with classical sensibilities, pop music would seem to be a foreign genre for a songwriter of Bird's skill and mastery. Andrew Bird narrates the "Inside Problems" that plague our atomized age 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z They play their first couple of songs, including a sultry cover of Fleetwood Mac's Oh Well, with the mastery of an old touring soul outfit running through the hits. SXSW music festival: Iggy Pop, Haim and The-Dream 2013-03-14T15:15:59Z But without Mr. Alaïa’s precision, his mastery of craft and his ease around women’s bodies, this will only lead to bad parodies. Azzedine Ala?a: The Master of the Female Form 2010-12-09T00:04:00Z But it did so with a difference, joining other groups that in their various ways raise a question whether the technical mastery of today’s string quartets has outstripped traditional challenges. Chamber Music With a Challenge: Playing From Memory 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z With “Paperback Writer” on the A-side — an unlikely pop premise, a surging riff, a profusion of vocal harmonies — the single affirmed the Beatles’ mastery while forecasting change. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z For Coach Dooley’s team, mastery arrives from a disciplined regimen of spaced, interleaved, and varied practice. Ditch the 10,000 hour rule! Why Malcolm Gladwell’s famous advice falls short 2014-04-20T15:30:00Z As a novelist, my imagination springs from the concrete details, and the writing is only as vivid as my mastery of the time and the place. Janet Fitch on writing her new novel, 'The Revolution of Marina M.' 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z From movement to movement, Dudamel demonstrates a mastery of the music’s mystery, delicacy and deeply felt nostalgia. Gustavo Dudamel: An Introduction in 10 Recordings 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z "I like to make movies about mastery and genius, and it's hard to find great subjects," Mr. Grazer told the magazine. ArtsBeat: James Brown Biopic Finally Gets Go Ahead 2013-01-16T19:38:17Z She stood out for her range of material, mastery of foreign languages and willingness to take risks on contemporary composers. Joanna Simon, Opera Singer from Famously Musical Family, Dies at 85 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Encouraging him to enter ITV's beleaguered reality show proved the perfect solution and, while the systems analyst showed little grasp of tune, his obsessively intense mastery of rhythm soon won the nation's hearts. Bored with 2012 retrospectives? Here's a look back at the year still to come 2012-12-30T00:06:06Z The heart of the work, however, is the dancers' exquisite mastery of hip-hop, from sequences of resonating, Zen-like slowness to whirling revolutions of light and air. Breakin' Convention – review 2013-05-06T16:12:40Z Rivera concentrated on the production of cars, from beginning to end, with such fidelity to the industrial process that he was praised by engineers and auto barons for his mastery of the details. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Both the text and illustrations in this book reflect Willems' mastery of comic timing, and his ability to say so much with so few words and lines. 5 new books for beginning readers 2011-04-30T01:15:25Z It was just impressive mastery of the form. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z It's truly delightful watching a man who has spent his life being dismissed gain mastery over the city of King's Landing. "Game of Thrones" fans are wrong about Tyrion Lannister 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Balanchine, sometimes called the Mozart of choreographers for his mastery of satisfying formal complexity and enthralling harmony, tackled several Mozart scores. Even Balanchine’s Arithmetic Contains Drama 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z I left the Philharmonie thinking about how Mr. Petrenko might be best suited to works like Mahler’s Sixth, in which a mastery of structure coexists with dramatic flexibility. Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Whereas the other directors aggressively promote their own coolness, flaunting borrowed attitudes and showy retrofitted styles, Mr. Soderbergh revels in squareness, and in a loose self-confidence that disguises its mastery. Review: ‘Logan Lucky’: Steven Soderbergh and His Motley Band of Thieves 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z I was stunned by her courage and her practical insight: speeding through the material is not the path to academic mastery. Perspective | Daydreaming is good for you, and other things I want kids to know about their brains 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z What’s most troubling is its emphasis on the notion of mastery. Art’s Greatest Enemy Might Not Be Science 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Today, Williams is a Mount Rushmore figure in jazz, possibly the greatest multiplier of openness and mastery the music has yet known. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z There are hoops and ropes and sticks, but mostly there is just astonishing physical mastery. The Week Ahead: Feb. 27 ? Mar. 5 2011-02-25T14:59:35Z Their improvisational touch underscored an inside-out mastery of the material; they know these riffs well enough to make it sound as if they’re still learning how to play them. Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z I worried a little that the cast would stumble over them, despite their obvious mastery of Daniel Pelzig’s playful and meticulous choreography. 'Guys and Dolls' at the Wallis: Pared down but still full of punch 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z This sense of mastery carries over into Mr. Kolker’s lean but ductile prose. Books of The Times: Robert Kolker’s ‘Lost Girls’ Delves Into Killings 2013-07-16T16:45:32Z Insidiously, though, the technologies that mediate our existence provide an illusory sense of mastery, as we tap a screen and summon brightly colored sweaters to our door. How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z “The Good Wife” was packed with dialogue and yet its real mastery was contained in its silent, contemplative stares. ‘The Good Wife’s’ mission accomplished: Alicia has triumphed. 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Through it all, and despite the exigencies of age, he maintained an enduring mastery of the piano. Blues musician "Pinetop" Perkins dies at 97 2011-03-22T00:39:00Z Fear of the unknown, of unplumbed depths, rises up to challenge us in “Pacific Rim,” only to be beaten back by our determination and mechanical mastery. Disaster Films Plague the Box Office 2013-07-19T18:26:49Z In his new gathering of tales, "The Empty Family," that mastery is complete. In 'The Empty Family,' Colm T?ib?n's penetrating eye sees all: straight, gay, past, present 2011-01-12T22:50:04Z Jansch's musicianship and mastery of the acoustic guitar are quietly impressive. Acoustic Routes – review 2013-02-27T23:15:01Z I spend a lot of time talking about Anna's haughty aristocatic lover Vronsky and how the essence of the aristocratic self is to show a mastery of fear. Tolstoy's great estate 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z If and when we do wife up, it’s tempting to believe that we’ve achieved some mastery over that particular cultural gallows. “Your Prince Charming will come!” and other dumb advice that married people give their single friends 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Elements of the tragic do assert themselves in “Jitney,” but all in all, the play demonstrates the playwright’s mastery of comedy better than any other play in the cycle. Review | It’s a hard-knock life, but often a funny one, in August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ at Arena 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Would that the producers of the 2020 Oscars possessed such mastery of measure. Big wins for "Parasite" including Best Picture provide the thrills in a long, dull Oscars 2020 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z A few weeks later, Mr. Bhardwaj met Mr. Peer in New Delhi, and they began collaborating on the screenplay, drawing on Mr. Bhardwaj’s mastery of Shakespearean adaptations and Mr. Peer’s journalistic realism. ‘Haider’ Angers Hindu Nationalists but Excites Film Critics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z He was known for his mastery of a wide variety of styles, from hard rock to country to blues. Acclaimed session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan dies 2012-10-04T10:35:09Z It’s a piece that says as much about his love of couture details as it does her mastery of the Asian art of lacquering. A Look at Fashion Designer Jacques Doucet's Collectibles 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z But Mr. Anderson displays his mastery as a director in the sword-fighting scenes. Movie Review: In Paul W. S. Anderson’s ‘Pompeii,’ Slave Meets Aristocrat 2014-02-20T22:43:28Z If a traditional bike ride offers some thrill from breezing around outside, Peloton represents a total mastery of the natural environment. This Is Your Brain on Peloton 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The veteran maestro Yuri Temirkanov is famous not only for his podium mastery, but also for his unpredictability, personal as well as musical. Music Review: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Plays Carnegie Hall 2014-02-17T22:48:40Z The piece was called “Solfeggio,” it was written by Arvo Part, and it set the tone for an evening of music that balanced emotional directness with technical mastery. Estonian choir brings artistry to unfamiliar music 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Oasis is one long watery dump taken on decades of English pop mastery that came before it. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z And they show the mastery with which Dvorak moved between past and present styles. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet Plays ?Adventures in Bohemia? 2010-05-17T20:29:00Z Watch both and you'll see the height of Hitchcock's mastery of silent cinema, and a precocious confidence with sound design, typified by the famous "knife" sequence. The Genius of Alfred Hitchcock at the BFI: 10 of his lesser-known gems 2012-07-04T09:38:11Z Dirk is immediately drawn to the latter, whom he recognizes as a fellow aspirant to mastery of the dark arts. Review | ‘Black Magic’ is an oft-overlooked thriller. Don’t overlook it. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z I told him about an upcoming visit to a refugee camp and my mastery of driving on the left side, including conquering roundabouts. You are on vacation and a loved one at home dies. What do you do now? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Another artist now showing real mastery was Rama Vaidyanathan; and in her recital, the surprising element was humor, with constant dashes of satire, wryness and amusement. Music Academy in Chennai Hosts Indian Dance Festival 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The female dancers appeared to float, thanks to their mastery of a grounded but flowing heel-to-toe gait. Heavenly emissaries Royal Ballet of Cambodia descend on Long Beach 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Her mastery seems effortless; she’s framed by a seemingly unshakable confidence. ‘Karen Dalton: In My Own Time’ Review: An Elemental Musical Force 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z “The clean precision in the lines and the high level of her work reveal the mastery she reached in printmaking.” The late Cuban artist Belkis Ayón's mysterious world unfurls at the Fowler Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z English poet Bird, who was also nominated for the prize in 2008, is shortlisted this year for her third poetry collection, Watering Can, which judges said showed "real mastery at work". Women dominate Dylan Thomas prize shortlist 2010-09-22T12:15:00Z Otherwise, like me, you might find yourself marveling at her mastery of language but distracted by wondering how she landed on words like “agglutination” or phrases such as “omniscient homunculus.” Review | Jhumpa Lahiri translates another Italian gem into English: Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trick’ 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z “Most of my work involves pushing the envelope of technical mastery,” Mr. Zorn said. The Unsingable Music That Stumped a Diva 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Ford has also brought a mastery of the eye-catching stunt to both fields, often involving nudity. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Then find a place in the shade and consider the benefits of not striving for mastery in badminton, say, of not going for the gold in bird-watching, or barbecuing. The case for “good enough”: Forget striving–our happiness depends on being satisfied with less 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z The latest of these, “If It Bleeds,” contains four new, exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm his mastery of the form. Review | ‘If It Bleeds’ reaffirms Stephen King’s mastery of short fiction 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z We also must interrogate our notions of power, Beard says, and scrutinize why they exclude women; we must examine how our conceptions of authority, mastery and even knowledge are inflected by gender. From Ancient Myths to Modern Day, Women and the Struggle for Power 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z As is often the way with such prizes, public recognition of her mastery took some time. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z And I will be so, so happy, reveling in the show’s mastery of tension, its push-pull of crumbling and coalescing. 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z In an atmosphere of almost religious quiet, she shows off her cool authority, her mystery and her technical mastery. Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Raymonda’ comes slowly to life 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Sharing one microphone onstage was a subtle show of mastery, exposing every musical detail. In Its Own Quiet Way, I’m With Her Is a Supergroup 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z As we mark 30 years since his death, we should celebrate the revolutionary lyrics, piano mastery and flamboyant show business style that he brought to rock music. Freddie Mercury 30 years on – remembering the theatrical, eccentric genius 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Every time someone demolishes Summer's On the Radio on a TV talent show, remembering the original – surely one of the greatest ever songs about that medium – only reaffirms Summer's technical and emotional mastery. Donna Summer's disco was as radical as punk 2012-05-17T17:40:00Z “It gave me a vocabulary for what my heart already knew,” he explained, describing the restorative process as gaining a mastery over emotions. The Prison Within: inside a moving documentary about restorative justice 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Apollo has two solos: Each shows a growth in mastery. Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Currier's mastery of instrumental colour proved just as dynamic on the larger orchestral canvas in the concert given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Richard Baker. Vale of Glamorgan festival – review 2013-05-16T14:54:15Z Just as a chef can’t experiment in the kitchen without familiarity with essential ingredients, a composer can’t innovate without basic mastery of the craft. Music Review: When Youthful Ambition Was Restrained by Prudence 2011-03-28T22:21:23Z It harkens back to the city’s first age of expansion, when in the 1500s its ships gained mastery of the North Sea fisheries. Quirks of Amsterdam, Revealed During Lunch 2013-04-19T14:56:08Z A physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, explorer and researcher, his skills include a photographic memory, a mastery of martial arts and vast knowledge of the sciences. Iron Man 3's Shane Black gets go-ahead for Doc Savage adaptation 2013-05-08T14:20:38Z Larson paints him as less villain than aggressive and essentially amoral predator in full mastery of his vessel, a decent leader of men who did his job relentlessly well while working under nearly impossible circumstances. Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ About the Lusitania 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z When, at the end of the jam, they took the floor, it was an unmistakable demonstration of mastery and maturity. Conjuring Spirits at the Tap Family Reunion 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z |
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