Sentence examples for authoritative English from inspiring English sources

Either way, he produced a "real" building, with a chaste, authoritative English renaissance-style limestone facade, sumptuous in its cool reserve.

The fifty-four churchmen and scholars empowered at a conference at Hampton Court in January of 1604 to provide an authoritative English Bible had a clear charge: to supply English readers with a self-explanatory text.

"Take a deep breath and clear your throat," a woman told me in an authoritative English accent, before explaining that the table before me was a stage and I was an actor who didn't know my lines.

This intensive, assured, penetratingly analytical book will be the authoritative English-language study of Mr. García Márquez until Mr. Martin can complete an already 2,000-page 2,000-pagetnote version "in a few more years, if life is kind".

The other element of being a Russian holy man was a taste for prophecy — "dominating all other manifestations of eccentric sanctity," according to Sergei Ivanov, author of "Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond," the most authoritative English-language account of the phenomenon.

Zeeya Pashtoon, the author of an authoritative Pashto-English dictionary, told me that dramatic curses are a common relief valve in Pashtun conversation, particularly among women and elderly men.

We should leave the last word to Fowler's authoritative guide to English usage: "The widespread public belief that 'But' should not be used at the beginning of a sentence seems to be unshakable.

Take, for example (from the 1910 translation by Lionel Giles, the first authoritative one in English): "The best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good"; "all warfare is based on deception"; and "it is the business of the general to be still and inscrutable, to be upright and impartial".

The committee, however, achieved no tangible result, and failed in its attempt to found an authoritative arbiter over the English tongue.

An authoritative evocation of the English amateur explorer who was permanently bemused by his two years with Scott and his fatal Antarctic expedition, and wrote a classic book about them, "The Worst Journey in the World".

An authoritative evocation of the English amateur explorer who was permanently bemused by his two years with Scott in the Antarctic and wrote a classic book about them, "The Worst Journey in the World".