Sentence examples for tone of command from inspiring English sources

"Instead of speaking in a tone of command, it would be better to respect each other's positions," Mr. Murai told reporters on Monday.

The manager has simply to draw a little on the immense reserve of credit he has banked with properly appreciative England fans who relish the tone of command as much as the results.

Fitzgerald was not exactly an aristocrat (her forebears were scholars and intellectuals), or exactly gentry (they were religiously wary of money and possessions), but she came from a brilliant and eminent family, with long connections to both the Church of England and Oxford University, and the tone of command is everywhere in her writing.

But in my own career as a pop star, which has always taken place exclusively inside my head, I am blessed with the voice of Johnny Cash: not sweet, not beautiful, but with the tone of command, so listeners are held captive even when they are already held captive, in Folsom prison.

"This tone of command struck me immediately as being quite out of the ordinary".

The research by Italian scientists was prompted by other work showing that dogs were able to distinguish happy and sad human faces, as well as have a sophisticated understanding of gestures and the emotional tone of commands.

Levi's prose has a tone of similar command, and in his last book, "The Drowned and the Saved," he became such an analyst, grouping material by theme rather than telling stories.

The plays and poems represent everything: a complex worldview, an astonishingly varied sense of character and tone, a command of poetic form and rhetoric and dramatic structure.

For today's listeners, just as remarkable as her guitar-playing is the great artistry of her singing: the strength of her tone and her command of expressive variation, the flexibility of her phrasing, the mastery of vibrato.

As usual Mr. Müller sang with rich, handsome tone, consummate command of dynamics, and deft and spontaneous-sounding ornamentation.

"Romantics Anonymous" might vaporize if the director and the actors didn't have such easy command over the tone of this singularly Gallic fairy tale.