Sentence examples for easy authority from inspiring English sources

Eben's PICNIC presentation came off with an air of easy authority and persuaded the jury.

But Ms. Hay has worked in dance long enough to have developed an easy authority.

Henry was covetous of their easy authority, which he believed came from handling large sums of money.

Salonen commands this multilayered music with easy authority; the emotion of homecoming at the end is palpable.

He danced with his characteristic easy authority, but his tree-trunk thighs and macho command seemed wrong.

Ms. Jaffe and Mr. Bocca danced with an easy authority that no one else on the program quite matched.

Mr. Matea's manner is contemplative, Mr. Scantlebury's extrovert, but both have easy stage authority and full-toned dancing.

She also knows that the basis of the French cadre is what she admiringly (and longingly) describes as French parents' "easy, calm authority with their children".

It all made a nutty kind of sense, in part because of Mr. Moultrie's easy choreographic authority and the assured jazz-ballet style of the dancers.

But however much she admires "the easy, calm authority" French parents seem to possess when enforcing the cadre, the waiting and the varied diet, will Druckerman manage it herself?

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