Example Sentences

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The performance, for all its forcefulness and sheer brute, was also full of delicacy and individuality.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024

"Our framework is the one that the prime minister expressed with absolute forcefulness yesterday: We have a tool, dialogue; a framework, the constitution; and an objective: coexistence."

From Reuters • Sep. 5, 2023

While Tatum’s even-keeled nature is typically viewed as a virtue given his night-to-night consistency, greater intensity and forcefulness are needed on nights such as this.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2022

That last bit, about keeping inflation expectations anchored, is critical for understanding the forcefulness of the Fed’s response.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2022

He was crying now with a forcefulness that alarmed me.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson