Sentence examples for perfect command of the vernacular from inspiring English sources

But this was not all, since great importance was also attached to the study of the classics and the practice of poetry and oratory; the courtier had to be able to write in rhyme and in prose and have perfect command of the vernacular, which was becoming important in political affairs; but above all he had to have skill at arms.

"I couldn't even put a phrase together," said Mr. Hounsou, who now has perfect command of the language.

Then there was Will Ferrell smartly capturing George W. Bush's cowboy impatience and less than perfect command of the English language here.

Chang has a perfect command of Korean and English — she grew up in Seoul and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania — and she translated whenever the situation required it.

The Geneva press reported that he had a "perfect command of [the] French [language]".

At the end of the meeting, they figuratively threw up their hands realizing he was in perfect command of himself".

The book's scope is ambitious, and Phillips's command of the vernacular impressive, but the strictly historical sections sometimes read like dry recitation.

Trisha Brown's new jazz-inspired dance piece is a beauty, a perfect blend of the vernacular and the abstract.

The necessary and sufficient conditions for perfect command tracking and disturbance rejection are provided.

According to the prose Praefatio, the Old Saxon poem was composed by a renowned vernacular poet at the command of the emperor Louis the Pious; the text then adds that this poet had known nothing of vernacular composition until he was ordered to translate the precepts of sacred law into vernacular song in a dream.

"It's unbelievable the amount of time he puts on perfecting the command of his fastball," Mazzone said.