Sentence examples for confident commanding from inspiring English sources

Confident, commanding, with relentless energy pushed to the limit and sustained throughout, he sounded very much like the robust lyric tenor with a bell-like resonance that the world was waiting for, and he looked the part as well: youthfully handsome, with an animal alertness.

Use a strong, deep, and confident commanding voice.

He was confident, commanding – cavalier as it might be said.

But Mrs. Obama's confident, commanding presence has its drawbacks.

Jeff Barry as Henry is certainly up to the task: confident, commanding and audible even against a backdrop of S.U.V.'s.

It was as if the confident, commanding pitcher that the Yankees believed they were getting in Sabathia's off-season signing had finally made his debut, too.

It is rare for a young playwright to be in such confident command of all the theater's resources as Ms. Herzog is here.

The second painting, done in Rome a few years later, demonstrates a confident command of the basics as well as attention to Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" (especially in the figure of Jesus) and to Raphael's "School of Athens".

She was in confident command of Prokofiev's florid, often vicious sieges of technical difficulty, and the nastiness lesser musicians bring to this music was softened to something almost moving, occupying a place somewhere between regret and resentment.

She's in confident command of the stage, has a nice line in malapropisms ("I am very, very expertise on this subject") and – à la Les Dawson on the piano – her incompetent singing is the work of someone who knows which bum notes to hit and when.

There were surprisingly smooth performances from the finance minister, Anwar ul-Haq Ahady, and the energy minister and former mujahedeen leader, Ismail Khan, who were expected to face strong criticism and questions about corruption, but showed a confident command of their portfolios.