Sentence examples for a commendable grasp of from inspiring English sources

Kennedy contributed three volumes to the Master Musicians series: Mahler (1974), Strauss (1976) and Britten (1981), all demonstrating a commendable grasp of recent scholarship, while addressing themselves to a wider lay readership.

Abroad, the British are often thought to be Hungarians or Latvians with a commendable grasp of English.RANKO BONReading, BerkshireFence postSIR As the grandson of a man who spent his youth stringing barbed-wire fences across the American West for a living, I was very interested to read "The wiring of America" (December 19th).

There's a commendable range of canned microbrew beers too.

To some, they indicate a commendable degree of self-awareness.

The Yankees' starter, Ivan Nova, did a commendable job of pitching around trouble.

"This must be the right place," she adds, with a commendable lack of irony.

"He is a commendable model of commitment to substance and to civility in public life.

The board appointed by the government did a commendable job of shepherding Satyam through a potentially fatal period.

By all accounts, Deveshwar did a commendable job of bringing the company back on the rails.

Reliability is a popular concept that has been celebrated for years as a commendable attribute of a person or an artifact.

Publishers Weekly said, "the story's fast-paced narrative and cartoon vignettes do a commendable job of explaining how small adaptations over time lead to evolution".