"Yes, brother," she said, suppressing the urge to argue against Godrie's authoritarian tone.
His voice shifted, taking on the authoritarian tone Dukat remembered from his childhood.
Harley was amused by the detective's authoritarian tone.
Many other residents of this city spoke in a similar vein today, bristling, for example, about the new Government's occasionally authoritarian tone.
There is an authoritarian tone, which I think squashes certain forms of individualism.
"No way," he said in that cautioning, authoritarian tone she hated so much.
Despite her bare feet and legs, she assumed an authoritarian tone.
In a more authoritarian tone he said, "Check the front section of the guiders.
'They're books,' she said, slightly irritated by his authoritarian tone.
There is an authoritarian tone in Mrs. Thatcher, and that could worsen.