In the fragments of just a single line, the words assume a particular, devastating power.
The first of these sequences establishes Wakanda, a landlocked country in eastern Africa, as home to Earth's sole supply of vibranium, the world's strongest metal, which is endowed with a potentially devastating power of its own.
This is a slim and unshowy story of devastating power, an epic poem in its own vernacular, an upside-down Odyssey at once particular and hauntingly universal.
Probably she was meant as a stand-in for Aphrodite, suggesting the devastating power of erotic desire while wearing what must have been a very scratchy thong.
"Stoker" is fundamentally a gothic horror story about the devastating power of secrets: India has been protected from ugliness by parents of good will, who keep it hidden; but the dark, suppressed knowledge bursts forth to destroy the family that the very repression was meant to protect, and the secrecy leaves most bereft the girl it was meant to sustain.
Ebola's devastating power was proved during a harrowing 30-month period between 2014 and 2016 when it swept across West Africa, killing more than 11,000 and infecting 28,000.
Not to mention an object of global fascination thanks to the devastating power of the Premier League marketing machine.
The devastating power of atomic warfare opened up an era where humanity's very survival was suddenly at stake.
The bout is Wilder's first Showtime pay-per-view, a clash of unbeaten fighters that matches Wilder's unorthodox but devastating power against the more methodical approach of Fury (27-0, 19 knockouts).
But Sondheim has always realized the devastating power of inertia, and "Fun Home" does, too.
