Sentence examples for authoritative notes from inspiring English sources

Once they had created enough brainy turbulence, Mr. Shorter stepped up, with just a few authoritative notes or long swirling lines, and, usually at the end of a section, a melody statement that arrived like a cry of pain or a benediction.

The United States Supreme Court can do its part to conclude this national drama on an authoritative note by allowing television coverage of the arguments before the court on Friday.

Mr. Kouyaté's leads — at the same volume as everything else he played — were high, trebly phrases, wet with echo, dipping occasionally for a run of authoritative low notes.

Spiced pigeon, again cooked sous-vide, came with artichokes and ale sauce, and was, again, an authoritative, rich, note-perfect piece of cooking.

The V-8 model Mustang convertible we tested was powerful and fast, with an authoritative exhaust note.

Paul Kildea, in "Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century," an authoritative new biography, notes that, accounting for inflation, the composer's royalties have doubled since his death, in 1976.

The performances of all of these were those of an organist whose skill extended beyond the playing of the notes to authoritative control of a very large instrument in a vast echoing space.

The authoritative Oxford Companion to Food notes that the word "coriander" is said to derive from the Greek word for bedbug, that cilantro aroma "has been compared with the smell of bug-infested bedclothes" and that "Europeans often have difficulty in overcoming their initial aversion to this smell".

Bryn Terfel, authoritative if unsubtle, is matched note for note by the fabulous Stephanie Blythe as Mistress Quickly; also excellent is Patricia Racette as Alice Ford.

The authoritative European Football Yearbook noted that their triumph "brooked no argument.

Atmospheric Lee Friedlander photos, and authoritative enthusiasm from liner-note writer Ashley Kahn round out a formidable collector's item.