Sentence examples for once authoritative from inspiring English sources

Like giant molten chess pieces, his shapes are at once authoritative and decadent.

Her conclusions are at once authoritative and skeptical: "But what do we know?

Hansen, a man of imposing stature and rosy complexion, speaks in a measured tone that's at once authoritative and congenial.

But today's rumors have a self-perpetuating quality, which is accentuated by the erosion of trust in institutions that had once seemed authoritative.

For all the obstacles she faces, just as often it's comically smooth sailing: "Please send a plainclothes detective at once," the authoritative teenager says into the telephone in "The Clue in the Crumbling Wall".

It was in 1963 that the network anchors as we define them today were born: a man (and still almost always a man) who is at once an authoritative reporter, a cool news reader and the nation's emotional proxy at history's events.

And, once again, authoritative-sounding figures insist that our problems are "structural," that they can't be fixed quickly.

Sam's manner, at once easygoing and authoritative, seemed to win over Jenna and Ian.

Drawing on his own long-standing battle with anxiety, Stossel presents an astonishing history, at once intimate and authoritative, of the efforts to understand the condition from medical, cultural, philosophical, and experiential perspectives.

While American officials do not want Mr. Hashem executed, they insist that they will turn him over and allow the sentence to be carried out once a proper "authoritative" request is made by the government of Iraq.

Quite naturally, I adopted a vocal tone at once respectful and authoritative.