Sentences with phrase «displaying mastery over»

They represented a kind of «trophyism» and a way of displaying mastery over nature.

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The effort to display Roman mastery over the nascent Christian faith by covering up its holy spot had, in fact, marked it for future veneration.

We passed over a couple of fine animated features (at that point, Avatar was still a dark, threatening mass on the horizon) to give the award to a Venice premiere: Joe Dante's The Hole, a modestly budgeted horror film that displays an effortless mastery of the third dimension.

Although he was initially labeled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half - century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.