Sentence examples for authoritative at from inspiring English sources

He was erudite yet funny; authoritative at the mosque's wooden pulpit and boyishly charming between prayers.

As Brooks, he is formidable and distant at work, relaxed and authoritative at home, and sardonic and almost viciously funny on his late-night jaunts.

Vida is a subtle writer whose voice is spare and authoritative, at times sounding like a less gothic Paul Bowles, and her third novel is further evidence that she can fashion characters as unpredictable as they are endearing.

He determined which rabbinic opinions were authoritative, at the same time carefully preserving minority opinions in case laws should be changed in the future and a precedent for these changes be required.

Voices such as these are not demure or afraid – of being sexual, or unaesthetic, of being emotional and sounding authoritative at the same time, of being too loud, or too high, or too frothy.

A jazz review on Thursday about the JVC-New York Jazz Festival and the Vision Festival misidentified the song on which the saxophonist Frank Wess was "particularly authoritative" at the Rose Theater.

"But authoritative sources at the front said that was not true".

Steve, the skipper, silent and authoritative, looks at his navigation instruments.

If you are looking for a short, authoritative look at all of the pricing alternatives, I wish you luck.

Zuckerman says the idea is not to be the sole, authoritative voice at conferences - it's more fun to collaborate.

But that is what Msgr. John T. Ferry says he does, though in a much gentler but equally authoritative way, at St. Patrick's Cathedral.