Sentence examples for authoritative standing from inspiring English sources
There is room, at least, to account for moral thought's continuity with other thought by emphasizing that it is all a matter of attributing properties (albeit different properties) to things; and there is room too for locating the distinctive nature of moral thought in the putatively authoritative standing of the properties attributed.
His acting has grown more authoritative and detailed, standing out in a company that values dramatic skills.
17th over: England 46-0 (Cook 29 Strauss 13) Another authoritative back foot shot from Cook, standing up on his tip-toes and swiveling his hips as he pulls four through backward square.
He sounded authoritative, credible, and important, which was exactly how his agent, standing nearby, had described him.
The more the novel becomes a solid thing in the world, the less access the writer has to the accidents, reversals, inventions, rejected ideas, passing weather, sudden triangulations, and unshakable intuitions that led to those words, and only those, standing there on the page with an authoritative air about them, as if they were always bound to be.
Mr. Lambert epitomizes the human craving to come to grips with some wisp of the atrocity, for he volunteers now to be one of 18 Shanksville "ambassadors" standing on the memorial hill and offering a tireless narrative of authoritative detail about the day Flight 93 crashed to earth.
