Sentence examples for commanding myself from inspiring English sources

While commanding myself to remain calm, I considered how there's so much more to wine than its intoxicating effects.

The moment sickens me, and my mind tries to stop it, but I command myself to walk.

"Relax!" I commanded myself.

I'm technically incompetent but emotionally believe myself to be in command.

Maybe I haven't mastered that command myself.

In his lack of fear, and his willingness to hurt others, Salvio possessed an aura of danger and authority I could never hope to command for myself.

So I said to myself: Who is this guy, and why isn't he commanding more attention?" ABC seems to be thinking that Mr. Santos can help fill a void in its programming.

Since I'd been a first lieutenant commanding Marines in combat against the Chinese army, and now had both a car and a license, I no longer thought of myself in strictly "copyboy" terms.

I find myself treating the experience like a video game: starting out cautiously with a few gentle turns, before commanding the car-sized rover to cross some sizable boulders.

I also had the experience, about three years ago, of being commanded to do hand stands I could not make myself do at an unnamed, fashionable yoga studio.

He had little use for the young correspondents, myself included, who covered the war in Vietnam while he commanded United States forces there.