Sentence examples for authoritative figure from inspiring English sources

"Morpheus was to me the authoritative figure and the mentor".

Intervention is choreographed by a single authoritative figure prepared to stay five weeks for peace.

Though an immensely authoritative figure, Balanchine, to Robbins, was genial and encouraging.

Last year Mr. Young created a similar site about the words of another authoritative figure: Shakespeare.

To be an authoritative figure, you want to be coolly scientific.

At almost six feet tall in heels, Mrs. Obama, 44, cuts an athletic and authoritative figure in her tailored pantsuits and skirts.

Yet the president got his footing and developed a distinctive style, and he leaves office as the most authoritative figure in international diplomacy.

What made the casting of the portly Hamilton more consequential at the time was that Captain Harold Dobey was an authoritative figure, not confined by any ethnicity.

He is a frail but authoritative figure, with cropped silver hair sweeping across a freckled forehead and keen blue eyes that gleam like lapis lazuli.

He would be backed by Mr Cable, by far the party's most authoritative figure, and he would probably have the support of a majority of his MPs.

Aspinall was a tough, authoritative figure who could control a situation without hitting anyone, although he must have come close with Lennon.