Sentence examples for a sure command of from inspiring English sources
The phrase "a sure command of" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to express a strong understanding or mastery of a particular subject or skill. Example: "Her years of study and practice have given her a sure command of the French language."
He has a sure command of the terms of the American civic religion.
DURING his short political life, George Bush has thrived on a sure command of a relatively narrow political agenda.
Smithfield's 94-page lawsuit sputters with an outrage not always grounded in a sure command of the English language.
He showed a sure command of the music and shaped phrases with a feeling for the pungent rise and fall of Wagner's poetry.
McGahern certainly knew the price of cows, but not many Irish writers of his generation had such a sure command of English prose and its subtleties.
He was a rigorous reasoner with a sure command of legal subtleties and constitutional principles and a knack for connecting them to the lives of ordinary people and the messy realities of politics and government.
"Have you been out there?" Klay shows sure command of his craft in tracing the chaplain's anguish as it becomes a crisis of faith.
When, in the more spacious collaborations with Ferber and Hart, Kaufman strays from this formula, his sure command of structure, dialogue, and pace holds everything together.
From the start, the reader senses Heaney's sure command of rhythm and line-endings, the firmness of his fractures: the literal translations, by comparison, move spongily from line to line.
It helps, too, that Thielemann has as sure a command of the composer's idiom as any conductor today.
French entry into the war changed its dynamics, for the British were no longer sure of command of the seas and had to worry about an invasion of their home islands and other colonial territories across the globe.
