From the first, it combines acrobatic and technical excitement with intricate classical order; in Vail you could feel how immediately it commanded the audience's attention and respect.
The show opens with a wry montage of Indian clichés ranging from traditional flute music to the Land o' Lakes box, and Dennis, an engaging performer, immediately commands our attention and rewards it with gripping stories and frequent laughs.
This bright, arresting opening immediately commands our attention but could have been written by any number of contemporaneous composers.
His presence immediately commands attention, and he easily takes over the room.
Director Andrew Morgan immediately commands attention by exposing the deplorable Bangladeshi sweatshop sector where more than a thousand workers have died in accidents that have made headlines worldwide.
In a kind of mental short-cut, a group of brain cells in the premotor cortex are thought to encode the observed action so that our bodies can be immediately commanded to perform it.
In particular, the focus domain is immediately c-commanded by hai, and the focus associate must be in the scope of the focus particle (Bayer 1996; Büring and Hartmann 2001; Jacob 1983; Sudhoff 2010).
Importantly, the latter two are, in fact, conditioned by the syntactic position of hai: the focus domain refers to the projection immediately c-commanded by hai, and the focus associates must be located within the focus domain (i.e., within the scope of hai).
Instead of a deep, powerful voice that immediately commanded attention, hers was high and mousy.
For Dion immediately commanded his men to face about, and led them towards the city of the Leontines.
