Sentence examples for confident strokes from inspiring English sources

It's one of the greatest films this country has ever produced, painting in broad, confident strokes with one of Oliver Reed's most powerful performances.

"The application of the brushstroke with its deft, confident strokes, the manner of creating the folds of the drapery, the touches of light on the faces and on some of the drinking vessels, some of the shadows and the choice of colors are all characteristic of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pilar Silva Maratoo, head of the Prado's department of Flemish Painting, told The Independent of London.

A five-piece group whose vocal harmonies and hooks are as striking as they are memorable, Natives performed with compact and confident strokes songs from across its two albums, and many sang along.

"Saucing takes a confident stroke," he said.

I didn't make a confident stroke.

That was a confident stroke to take the American pair back to two up against Westwood and Hansen.

1.25am GMT 79th over: NZ 227-7 (need 266; Watling 48, Martin 9) Martin cuts a poor ball from Panesar for four, a very confident stroke for a 9.5.

Through two rounds of the PGA Tour's inaugural FedEx Cup playoffs, he stands at 12-under 130 on the strength of a confident stroke on the greens.

Better, then, to make a series of tentative, "lagged" putts, rather than risk sending the ball past the cup with one over-confident stroke.

An electric current seems to run through the confident, rhythmic strokes.

Mr Wieseltier himself writes of "jihadists" with the same confident prejudicial strokes Mr Sullivan uses to talk about "the Goldfarb-Krauthammer wing" (or, in other contexts, "Christianists").