Sentence examples for command of the role from inspiring English sources

With Mr. Vickers it is invariably a coruscating one, all the more so, in recordings, for anyone who remembers his manic command of the role onstage.

Robert Carlyle ("The Full Monty") works hard at impersonating Hitler, but he has a harder time taking command of the role.

From the first lines of Norma's entrance — in which the druids, chafing under the degradation they suffer from the Romans, are poised to rebel — Ms. Meade sounded in complete command of the role, delivering the character's charged, defiant dramatic recitative with gleaming sound and incisive attack.

Her voice is well suited to choppy writing, but her command of the role's irrepressible passion exceeds even high expectations, and the scene in which she reflects on having found a true mate is almost unbearably moving.

Wei Hai-ming also showed her command of this role at the Taipei Theater, in 1995, creating a figure almost as memorable as her Precious Consort.

Cotes described Robey as having "a great vitality and immense command of the [role].

What made Reagan so effective politically beyond the fevered precincts of the right was that he was able to provide cover for that right-wing -- and racist -- animus through his command performance of the role of president in a way that articulated conservative resistance to gains made by blacks, women and gays without coming across as overtly racist, sexist or homophobic.

Samuel Ramey is not so far past, though, and he should retain command of the title role.

Blakeley White-McGuire handles the fabric flourishings and smoldering gestural commands of the central role well.

Corps, under command of Édouard Mortier; the role of the Corps was to patrol and secure the northern shore of the Danube river, limiting the Austro-Russian activity.

And the charismatic baritone Simon Keenlyside was commanding in the role of Prospero, which he had created in the opera's London premiere.