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
This indictment is ultimately a spiritual one: of obsessive consumption, and freedom defined as escape from restraint rather than self-mastery.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2020
Was it his moment of iron self-mastery that brought her with outstretched, clinging arms towards him?
From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Blackwood, Algernon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
