self-mastery
Example Sentences
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Devin’s bark is indicative of the endless hours working at self-mastery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
Researchers have found that toddlers who are read to become children who are "more likely to enjoy strong relationships, sharper focus, and greater emotional resilience and self-mastery."
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2021
For both men, expeditions are tests, as much internal as external, and they’re eager to see what can be found at the outer boundaries of their self-mastery.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 24, 2020
It signals purpose and self-mastery; no need to worry that anyone is judging the quality of the execution.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2020
It is in vain that we preach freedom to men who have not this self-mastery; as the poet tell us: "The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, slaves of their own compulsion."
From The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair
