Sentence examples for it is a commanding from inspiring English sources

Further, if political knowledge is like architecture, it is a commanding knowledge (epitaktikê epistêmê); it gives commands.

Now nearly 30 feet high and about five years old, it is a commanding presence.

It is a commanding performance by an actor perhaps born to play this character.

It is a commanding performance from Hoffman, and an overwhelmingly satisfying note for this actor to end on.

All told, it is a commanding, haunting farewell — one that deserves, but is unlikely to receive, the cult fame accorded to its predecessor.

It is a commanding physical performance, marked by a delicacy of movement that conveys Arenas's tentative sexual awakening and defiant spirit.

It is a command ordained by destiny.

"Excuse me" is never a request; it is a command.

"It is a command-post exercise which will test our command, control and communications," the spokesman said.

"What's going on there is not well understood," Lincoln Taiz told me, "but there is no evidence it is a command center".

It is a command in Judaism to "welcome and love the stranger as you would yourself because you were strangers in the land of Egypt".