His lectures on rock art became the basis of an authoritative book, "Visions From the Past," published in 2002.
He is special, the musicians explain, not merely because of his clarity of vision, authoritative analysis or the mysterious energy of his gestures, but rather because of the way he listens.
Yet it is difficult to reconcile this demotic vision with the authoritative role courted by this very dictionary.
Authoritative leaders mobilize people towards a vision.
The word they first used, Dr. Leavitt said, made it "sound like God had been working out at the gym," conveying a vision of physical strength rather than authoritative power.
Today he rails against the two visions of the left: the "populist, authoritative nationalist version" pursued by the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, and the "well-behaved left" of Western Europe, which seeks to humanize the existing institutional model through social policy.
Varied and authoritative and frequently beautiful though the language is, it circles around a vision, both turgid and static, of a new world turning old, and poisoned from the start.
Norman describes his vision for the culture committee as energetic, focused, but collegial, unified, authoritative and cross-party.
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.
