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

Celia also taught her daughter to control unproductive emotions, such as anger, through relentless self-mastery: “Be a lady,” she frequently exhorted.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2018

She was dressed trimly, he noticed, as he came toward her, and she held her horse firmly—he liked her for that, it showed self-mastery.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin