Sentence examples for command of the historical from inspiring English sources
But she does not always demonstrate convincing command of the historical context.
Filmmakers who frequently work on biographical movies say that success in the genre requires a command of the historical record and the instincts to know when to set history aside.
Among the most impressive features of the Islam Quintet is the attention to detail: custom, law, dress, archaic place-names, all in addition to a command of the historical events around which each novel in turn is structured.
At the same time, Lawrence Lipking displays state-of-the-art command of the historical scholarship, especially striking in the cases of Galileo, Hooke, and Newton". Dimensions 6.1 x 9.3 x 1 in.
Here, he returns to the issue of large-scale ethnic violence in Africa, demonstrating an impressive command of the historical material to contrast the cases of Rwanda and Sudan, where genocides took place, with three cases in which ethnic conflict did not reach that point (Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal).
Matthew Mulcahy demonstrates great skill and command of the historical period and contexts". "Overall this is a fine book: balanced, comprehensive, and well written..
The book's scope is ambitious, and Phillips's command of the vernacular impressive, but the strictly historical sections sometimes read like dry recitation.
James D.G. Dunn states that they "command almost universal assent" and "rank so high on the 'almost impossible to doubt or deny' scale of historical facts" that they are often the starting points for the study of the historical Jesus.
Of the historical perspective?
This was the historical novel, in which contemporary problems could be veiled as thinly or as thickly as necessary to fool Russian censors whose command of the Estonian language remained poor, and their command of Baltic-German history almost equally so.
