Sentence examples for with a shaky command of from inspiring English sources

NEW DELHI — Eleven years ago, when she took over as president of India's oldest political party, Sonia Gandhi was seen as India's most improbable politician: a foreigner with a shaky command of Hindi, reclusive to the point of seeming aloof, a wife who had fought to keep her husband from joining politics and who lost him to an assassination.

His narrative aimlessness, and languorous pacing, set, incongruously, against a laugh track, suggest a shaky command of his larger purpose.

One problem is that since the focus is on communication rather than on accurate and secure knowledge and skills, pupils can achieve high grades with very shaky command of the foreign language, both written and spoken.

… When they appear at public hearings on their projects (which they do all the time, and which they consider part of their aesthetic process), Christo, who is Bulgarian by birth, speaks with an intensity that overcomes his accent and his still shaky command of English, while Jeanne-Claude's French-tinted fluency gets all the laughs.

Her painful childhood left Ms. Fonda with a shaky sense of self.

Even with a shaky grasp of our parts, we're whipping up a massive, stinging cloud of noise.

He's an inveterate mumbler with a shaky sense of pitch, and he looks pretty awkward onstage.

I sat gaping in my Berlin apartment, parsing news articles with a shaky grasp of German.

The video opens with a shaky close-up of the hippos.

Miguel was charming, with a superb command of English.

The photo that had tugged at people's hearts, of a bald boy with a shaky smile, had been pulled from the Web site of a cancer foundation.