Sentence examples for compelling authority from inspiring English sources

Ms. Archer's well-paced interpretation had a compelling authority.

As the Empress's confidante, the Nurse, Michaela Martens looked like Angela Lansbury and sang with compelling authority.

And the tigerish attack with which he brought Mozart's C minor sonata K457 out of 18th century decorum and into our 21st century sound-world had compelling authority.

How many remember that Portia, played with compelling authority by Kate Forbes (so fine in Mr. Tresnjak's "All's Well That Ends Well" for the same company last season), is a little bit racist sometimes?

Wouldn't that be a fair observation?" But Mr. Murdoch carried on, determined to challenge his public image, one that a former editor of The Times of London, Harold Evans, who was summarily fired by Mr. Murdoch, has described as the embodiment of "charismatic authority," a leader who derives compelling authority from popular perception rather than by his direct orders.

The pristine beauty of her lyric soprano and the charm of her person, combined with hard work and innate intelligence, lent her performances a compelling authority, even though some, not unjustly, considered that artifice sometimes replaced art in her interpretations of both opera and lieder.

We have the compelling, official authority of the new state licenser, and Milton pits that external state of power against the powers of reason and against the powers of conscience that, of course, were seen to govern human action from within – an internalized authority.

Osborne smartly hypothecates a council tax rise, compelling local authorities to spend a 2 per cent increase on social care.

Under most frameworks (including the ECHR) the right to life has not been interpreted as compelling public authorities to make decisions in one way or another concerning the allocation of funding to particular healthcare expenditure, even where such decisions may have involved increased risks of mortality for certain groups suffering from certain conditions.

Ripe-looking whiskers certainly lent Richard Hatch, the winner on "Survivor" last season, a compelling air of authority.

She's a cunning actress, blessed with a deep, compelling voice, whose authority powerfully registered all the mercurial half notes of acerbity and panic.