Sentence examples for too authoritative from inspiring English sources

In one form or another, the charge has been lodged against authors as different as Vladimir Nabokov (too clever), Richard Wilbur (too elegant) and Garry Wills (too authoritative).

'I didn't want to be too authoritative because you have to allow the filmmaker freedom - no film is ever going to be the book, which is as it should be.

Then there are the challenges of simply trying to find a leadership style that works: not too authoritative, or you'll be deemed unfeminine, but not too feminine, or you're suddenly soft, not capable of making the tough calls.

If they had named the series Required rather than Nonrequired, that would be too authoritative and assholish.

Brought up by an adoptive preacher father who embraced Jesus but could not love his son, Baldwin fought for his father's attention by becoming a preacher, too, an authoritative role that he used, in the end, to distance himself from the terrifying complications of his own blackness in a country that wanted nothing to do with it.

In the era of Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric and Christiane Amanpour, it's hard to believe that there was a time when the networks considered the evening news too important to entrust to a woman, and paired Ms. Walters with a more authoritative-looking Harry Reasoner.

It was the Vietnam era, and Professor Lipman believed that many Americans were too accepting of authoritative answers and slow to reason for themselves — by college, he feared, it would be too late.

By "gently offer," do not tell them what they "must" do and do not be too firm or authoritative.

That was the theme Ms. Musgraves kept returning to during this too-short but authoritative set at One Night in... New York City, an annual benefit by the gossipmonger Perez Hilton for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation.

He also appears authoritative.

James Morris as the high priest Ramfis, and Jordan Bisch as the King both sounded too pallid for such authoritative figures.