authoritative

How To Use authoritative In A Sentence

• Enough's enough, Katya," Jerry said, doing his best to sound authoritative. COLDHEART CANYON
• That brings up significant issues as authoritative source vs . volunteered geographic information.
• But because he is a doctor, Reuters is suggesting to readers that his word is necessarily authoritative.
• They all looked so authoritative when flicking their wands to dismiss boggarts, poltergeists and other pests.
• An authoritative German voice crisped the air, asserting itself above the general drone.
• What began in 1968 as a Beltway junkie's labor of love has turned into an authoritative collection of whistle-stopping campaign slogans and vicious slings and arrows of partisan attacks that stretches all the way back to the Founding Fathers (who came up with terms like "electioneer" and the party "ticket"). How to Sound Presidential
• They were still waiting over an hour later as the police went about using their metal barricades and polite but authoritative commands to disperse the area.
• After the lapse of a fortnight, Hepburn, candidate for congressman-at-large, declined to accept because "it is quite apparent that a very large portion of the Republicans, owing to the unfortunate circumstances which have come to light since the adjournment of the convention, are not disposed to accept its conclusion as an authoritative utterance of the party." [ A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
• A judge should comport himself authoritatively [ with dignity ].
• With the unresolved limina of Gertrude's involvement only fuelling his existential crisis, trapped in a tangle of determinacy and authoritative warp, Hamlet has only his affective judgement to fall back. Modality and Hamlet