Sentence examples for strange authority from inspiring English sources

It gives her this strange authority".

Reading Didion today, more than ever, means submitting almost fully to the strange authority of the voice on the page.

Children's books carry a strange authority, Istel reasoned: No one can argue that Little Red Riding Hood's cloak was actually blue.

Even heady abstractions ("Don't wipe your eyes over lies/Just let them shine their blue/On every whisper that welcomes/The inconceivable and the birth of the true") seemed to resonate with some strange authority.

Where Mary Martin had the pixieish quality of a young mom or teacher cheerfully engaging in playtime — her Peter embodied a kid's attitude ("I don't wanna wear a tie!"), wielded a strange authority ("Lovelier thoughts, Michael!"), and was the ultimate bad influence — Williams had the grave air of a woman who would boldly wear a somewhat mannish haircut to achieve a childhood dream.

Where Mary Martin had the pixieish quality of a young mom or teacher cheerfully engaging in playtime her Peter embodied a kid's attitude ("I don't wanna wear a tie!"), wielded a strange authority ("Lovelier thoughts, Michael!"), and was the ultimate bad influence Williams had the grave air of a woman who would boldly wear a somewhat mannish haircut to achieve a childhood dream.

That makes them strange authorities to pray in aid of Corbyn, who plans to go over the heads of his own MPs and get party members to make Labour a unilateralist party once more.

That's what gives it its strange, almost hallucinatory authority".

That Rieff writes from a viewpoint halfway between these two competing logics — the one pointing toward belief, the other toward skepticism — accounts for this book's strange mix of authority and despair.

Finland has become the first nation on earth to acknowledge formally the childcentric model of economic development: if you wanted a fast-growing economy, you needed to promote rapid technical change, and if you intended to promote rapid technical change, you needed to cede to children a strange measure of authority.

These days, however, the strange bedfellowship of authors and authorities has turned into a marriage of convenience, where "big ideas" inspire "bold actions" and vice versa.