Sentence examples for graceful command from inspiring English sources

His full sound, melodic fertility, and graceful command of instrumental technique influenced other early jazz players and also swing-era clarinetists, most significantly Benny Goodman.

If you've also watched this spring season's two premieres, by Peter Martins and Benjamin Millepied, it's hard to miss how much more theatrically lucid Mr. Wheeldon makes his dancers, how strikingly graceful is his command of steps, patterns, and shapes, and how skillfully he handles aspects of his music.

Meyer is a graceful writer in full command of his voice, with a scrupulous eye for detail and a flawless sense of comic timing.

Luckily, See is gifted with a lucid, graceful style and a solid command of her many motifs.

The graceful fluency with words that he commanded as a writer deserted him totally when he was in society his conversational mishaps were memorable things.

"I remember trying to put on graceful airs -- 'Be swanlike!' my head commanded".

YAFFA SCHLESINGER'S office at Hunter College commands a magnificent cityscape of soaring towers, graceful bridges and streets teeming with people.

It's a graceful, powerful song, coming at you calmly, with a driving command and an eerie, sliding melody.

A graceful mezzo-soprano stylist, Ms. Franklin had remarkable range, power and command, along with the innate ability to burrow into a lyric until she'd found the exact coordinates of its emotional core.

Her command of register is masterly, moving from formal to conversational with graceful authority.

Jommelli was a Neapolitan composer whom Mr. Muti championed here, and it was a treat to encounter this master again in this engaging piece, which relates via da capo arias the anguish engendered by the Lord's command — which is almost charmingly announced by an Angel (Nuria Rial) in a graceful aria — and the relief and renewed faith brought by rescission of the command.