Sentence examples for language of authority from inspiring English sources

Building on a tradition of surreal British satire that goes back to film-makers such as Lindsay Anderson or screenwriter Dennis Potter, Thomas draws attention to the tacit systems that shape daily life, whether the body language of authority figures or the empty rhetoric of institutions.

Anderson's singing voice has improved over the years, but speech still predominates - both her natural voice, sometimes processed with harmoniser or vocoder, and her "man's voice", which enables her to question the language of authority, and our attitudes towards things we thought "had gone forever: hanging, beheading, people in cages, torture".

Internal persuasive discourse that is "half-ours and half someone else's" (Bakhtin, 1981) is contrasted with authoritative discourse, which is the more alien and static language of authority, and helps the teacher tone down the force of his comments and controls frustration.

Here it is in all its glory: the coercively reasonable language of authority.

Force becomes the language of authority, and authority is sustained by force.

The language of authority in Smith's revelations was appealing to converts, and the revelations were given with the confidence of an Old Testament prophet.

The principle of parliamentary sovereignty was expressed in the language of paternalistic authority; the British referred to themselves as parents and to the colonists as children.

The Treasury's consultation documents, which Mr Osborne unveiled yesterday, talk about "improving the UK's tax competitiveness" rather than adopting the language of an authority hoping to put a stop to multinationals playing the system.

For child psychologists like G. Stanley Hall, straight talk represented a language of moral authority, and they saw it as a tool for parents to reprimand their children.

While that has doubtless helped to give them a hearing, these students are maintaining the nation's attention by invoking the language of parental authority to demonstrate how adults ― parents and politicians ― have failed to fulfill a crucial role: to protect children from gun violence.

This whole language of doubts about authority — that Dante is the authority of himself as the one who can administer justice, the authority about the — himself as even capable of remembering that which he has seen and therefore the authority of the poetic voice.