Sentence examples for fearsome authority from inspiring English sources

But the hardworking Thompson, who doesn't have much opportunity to use her gift for comedy here, lacks the fearsome authority you'd expect of a messenger from another world; she's more like a barking drill sergeant.

He ran through the third and fourth sets, seemingly invincible, hitting out with a fearsome, unbridled authority.

When Mrs. Bauer and friends who managed to stay together through the war speak of Aleksander Laak, their SS commander, there he is in his fearsome ramrod authority, and, at the film's end, there he is 15 years later in Canada, looking plump and content, surrounded by the kinds of relatives he never let his victims keep.

Most of them had been brought up by fearsome women of authority: nannies, matrons, distant and detached mothers, whom one did not challenge or disobey.

Uncanny, because the progress of events, in each city, is the same: a summertime provocation the raid on the blind pig, in Detroit, and the police shooting of an unarmed African-American, Michael Brown, in Ferguson triggers complaint, conflagration, looting, and a fearsome response from the authorities.

And if his authority rested on fearsome rumors of a "spanking machine" he kept in his office, no pupil ever actually encountered the device, Mr. Raskin said.

A fairer, simpler tax code would add a badly needed dose of moral authority to the fearsome Mr Fedorov's operatives.But the biggest problem is political backing.

Elizabeth I As recommended by Faribole and TonyMax1000 The most powerful woman on this list, Good Queen Bess may have had the body of a weak and feeble woman but she dressed like no other, giving off a fearsome impression of riches and authority.

As many others have noted, anonymity combines on the internet with an inflated sense of authority to create the fearsome flame-beast.

The author demonstrates his fearsome battle stance.

OSH, Kyrgyzstan — As local authorities continue to investigate the fearsome outbreak of ethnic violence that gripped this provincial city four months ago, the experience of Zukhra Khakimova stands out as typical.