Sentence examples for fine command of from inspiring English sources

Judging by the trailer, it plays both on Huppert's skill at extreme emotion and on her fine command of inscrutability.

The program did not test his interpretive depth, but he showed a fine command of the orchestra and he too has the confidence of Mr. Abbado.

Conley arrives at the paddock in fine command of his medium, as frisky and playful as a colt, and he treats his readers to a lively ride.

In this, her first solo album, she reveals a happy affinity for Berlioz's style, assisted by a fine command of French and a gift for spinning long vocal lines that never lose their essential energy.

And his latest and greatest recent asset, apart from an easy, smiling manner and a fine command of French and English, is his friendship with George Papandreou, his Greek counterpart, who is perhaps even more responsible for the two countries' current rapprochement.

Yet according to Lucy Scholes in the Sunday Times, "the psychoanalyst-turned-author quickly proves that she is in fine command of the genre as she turns her attention to the complex workings of the human heart... Vickers proves herself a formidable and astute chronicler of the psychology of love".

It is much less effective than her labyrinthine canvases, a mode of which she has a fine command.

The baritone Thomas Hampson as Boccanegra was in very good voice on Monday, projecting also a fine dramatic command of whispered emotions.

Cunningham described the command of the Mediterranean Fleet as "The finest command the Royal Navy has to offer" and he remarked in his memoirs that "I probably knew the Mediterranean as well as any Naval Officer of my generation".

A fine artist with command of narrative text as well, Curlee clearly details the challenges Bartholdi and Laboulaye faced in making their idea a reality.

Like Mozart's, his music asks for beauty of line, finesse of phrasing and agile command of fine detail-work.