He ended with Szymanowski's Lisztian "Don Juan's Serenade," played with myriad colors and cool command.
He dispatched the virtuosic challenges with a cool command that paradoxically enhanced the bravura excitement.
Mr. Gilbert seemed totally in his element, conducting with a mix of cool command and jazzy swing.
Among the pleasures of being in his fictional company is witnessing his cool command of hundreds of details, from the small to the lofty.
Even her critics concede that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York used her debate time well, demonstrating in incremental steps her confidence and cool command of facts and policy issues.
For one thing, Mr. Ryan's sheer stage presence – his cool command of the stage, his crisp and sunny delivery of attack lines, his endearing invocation of biography — has raised the stakes for Mr. Romney.
I don't want to be the kind of person who risks her dignity, her cool command of a situation, after being pushed to the brink of madness by a minor breach in laundry etiquette.
The result has shown each of the past two seasons, and Manning's performance in the 41-7 drubbing of the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday provided the latest snapshot of his cool command.
'The Others' Nicole Kidman, looking remarkably like Grace Kelly, is in cool command in a deft, supernatural thriller, written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar, that suggests a hybrid of "The Innocents" and "The Sixth Sense".
Another pretty cool command was spreading your fingers open and closed to zoom in and out of something.
Stuart, Chernow argues, was not deceived by Washington's "aura of cool command", but painted him as "a sensitive, complex figure, full of pent-up passion"; Chernow states his intention to do the same, presenting Washington as "real, credible, and charismatic in the same way he was perceived by his contemporaries".
