Sentence examples for gentle authority from inspiring English sources

"Lucky," he repeated, silencing her with a quiet, gentle authority.

Gary radiated grace and gentle authority, whether in corporate headquarters or on the tennis court.

In fact, he himself was not, as husband and father, the gentle authority figure his readers revered..

The first thing I did everywhere was learn the language," he says, speaking English with a quiet, almost gentle authority.

Nair opened the door to Mamdani, a handsome Ugandan-Asian in his early forties, with playful eyes and a gentle authority.

The Games required viewers to become instantly interested in any number of obscure sports, and with her command of facts, innate enthusiasm and gentle authority, Balding drew everyone in effortlessly.

"Modesty squads" of young men take it upon themselves to threaten and sometimes enact violence and ostracism on anyone who strays, and the specter of their vigilantism helps gentler authority figures, like the local rabbi, maintain control.

Wealthy Afghans buy bachabazi, (dancing boys) as catamites.Where laws are gentler, authorities find other ways to crack down.

At her most engaging, Ms. McGovern effuses the gentle, warmhearted authority of a younger, American Julie Andrews, with a dash of salt.

Nureyev, it seems, is good for Fonteyn who, being the least vain and least umbrageous of ballerinas, evidently relishes his exotic, far from submissive partnership; and there must be something in Fonteyn's gentle, unassertible authority which is equally good for Nureyev.

One is the veteran Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, who wields his grave and gentle style with calm authority in his Symphony No. 4, "Los Angeles," performed radiantly by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic on a new disk (ECM).