Sentence examples for utter authority from inspiring English sources

The decisive naturalness of her phrasing has utter authority without a jot of diva ego.

"He was shot!" The adviser smiled and shook his head, accustomed, like most, to rumors spoken with utter authority.

It was also a personal milestone for Valery Gergiev, who spearheaded the production and conducted the enormous score, nearly four hours long, with utter authority.

In "Walpurgisnacht," a plotless, pretty and very purple ballet set to Gounod's dance music for "Faust," Ms. Mearns held the stage with utter authority and a technical assurance (there was a particularly wonderful diagonal of twirling turns) that seemed almost an afterthought, so dramatic and musically responsive was her dancing.

She exudes utter confidence.

"Mnuchin's position is not at all new, nor is his utter lack of authority on the issue," said Derek Scissors, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute, alluding to the U.S. trade representative's responsibility for import taxes.

Mumbai has always been a chaotic city: witness its authorities' utter inability to cope with monsoon flooding last year.

This is just the latest example of the Iranian authorities' utter contempt for justice and human rights," he said.

Those calls were echoed by another watchdog group, Amnesty International, who said actions by Russian police demonstrated "the authorities' utter contempt for fundamental human rights".

His flouting of authority, his utter knack for unpredictable behavior.

In just one example of utter credulity, the occupational authority in Iraq threw hundreds of thousands of armed Iraqis out of work and onto the streets with no job and no salary.