She had an air of calm authority that made the other's arrogance look like mere bluster.
Jeff spoke with the calm authority of age and experience, but Ariel was not listening.
"Be quiet," Michael said in a voice that resounded with calm authority.
Despite his own fear, he sent a wave of calm authority along the link.
She held herself quietly, but with an air of calm authority like a Shin'a'in shaman.
He rolled his shoulders, pulling the mantle of calm authority back around himself.
She could tell he was exerting every effort to maintain the voice of calm authority his crew had come to expect from him.
She had the calm authority of one whose wishes had been law from the nursery.
He actually seems to understand why computers do what they do, and answered every question with calm authority.
He always rose to such occasions with confident decisiveness and calm authority.
