His work with acid and the burin was spirited and exhibited his thorough mastery of technic.

He was a hard-working and intelligent lawyer, possessed of a thorough practical mastery of the branch of justice which he administered for so many years.

His works show little imagination, but they display a thorough mastery of the technical necessities of the stage, and a remarkable power of devising effective situations.

He was fluent in the works of the Maharal and had a thorough mastery of Jewish philosophical works, Hasidic thought, and Kabbalah.

Spock recalled that Seven claimed a thorough mastery of cloaking technology on the part of his anony- mous sponsors.

Shows a thorough mastery of the literature on Berkeley, along with very perceptive remarks about the strength and weaknesses of most of the central commentators.

His translations indicate not only sound scholarship but a thorough mastery of the laws of German diction and rhythm.

His tenure there was characterized by a thorough mastery of law, although opinions vary as to whether his temper had by this time been checked.

Otto Wilhelm Masing (1763-1832) was the first literate who had a thorough mastery of the Estonian language.

The diction is distinguished by high poetic beauty and by a thorough mastery of versification.