Sentence examples for sure command of from inspiring English sources

He has a sure command of the terms of the American civic religion.

DURING his short political life, George Bush has thrived on a sure command of a relatively narrow political agenda.

Smithfield's 94-page lawsuit sputters with an outrage not always grounded in a sure command of the English language.

He showed a sure command of the music and shaped phrases with a feeling for the pungent rise and fall of Wagner's poetry.

When, in the more spacious collaborations with Ferber and Hart, Kaufman strays from this formula, his sure command of structure, dialogue, and pace holds everything together.

"Have you been out there?" Klay shows sure command of his craft in tracing the chaplain's anguish as it becomes a crisis of faith.

Michael Symmons Roberts won the Whitbread prize in 2004 with Corpus – a collection that, like this one, showed the surest command of a body of work in all senses.

But on this special night he conveyed the heroics of the "Eroica" while conducting the score with sure command and profound insight.

It helps, too, that Thielemann has as sure a command of the composer's idiom as any conductor today.

French entry into the war changed its dynamics, for the British were no longer sure of command of the seas and had to worry about an invasion of their home islands and other colonial territories across the globe.

His is not a huge voice, but it is as firm and sure as his command of verismo style.