Sentence examples for commanding line from inspiring English sources

An accomplished, carefully hatched pen-and-ink image on paper showing Nyack's lively harbor, with choppy waves, scudding clouds, sailboats of varying sizes and a tug carrying the town's name on its stern, the drawing demonstrates the crisp, commanding line that later energized the masterly etchings Hopper made in the teens and 1920s.

The last, commanding lines of the novel, supposedly written by its subject, reveal the spell the author was under: "If you want to be a good ghost, stay quiet for almost a century.

The film's crisp colours and commanding lines summon up a ravishing portrait of pre-war Japan with its puffing steam-trains, huddled neighbourhoods and lulling nocturnal tram-rides through town.

The blithely independent and commanding vocal line soars over restless music full of bopping eighth-notes.

Others, like the title track, are notable for "Smith's commanding lead guitar lines [that are] scaled to epic heights while at the same time buried in the mix, almost as if they're trying to burst from behind the upfront rhythm assault.

He says only what he wants to say, and he delivers his lines with commanding off-kilter intonations (rising when you would expect falling, or just deadpan).

It's no wonder everyone wants to hire the saxophonist Steve Wilson: with a light but commanding sound, he plays lines that seem fresh and airily bluesy, unencumbered by the common will to overwhelm.

For me the best of The Last Jedi was watching an older Leia holding the line in a commanding role.

Even S.U.V. skeptics could be wowed by the comfortable driving position, the uncluttered sight lines and the commanding view of the road — even behind you with the optional backup camera.

Toward the end of the show he was no longer playing tentatively, and in "Shakedown Street" he managed to play lines with such commanding rhythmic suggestions that he took the lead in shaping the music.

One of them, as much as two miles out from his main line, was on a commanding elevation and defended by an intrenched battery with infantry supports.