Sentence examples for a forceful character from inspiring English sources

"Anyone who knows Jemima will know that she is a forceful character with strong views," said Kelner.

He has never been a forceful character; he can be Reaganesque in his inclination to set the tone and direction of policy but leave the details to others.

The person who symbolises this economic success more than any other, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's finance minister until June, is a forceful character.

That might be tricky under the chairman, Sir John Parker, who is a forceful character and deeply involved in running the company.

"I've never worked under such a centralised presidency .Mr Sarkozy has a taste for plain-talking confrontation and a forceful character that may enable him to get deals that others cannot.

A respected spiritual leader and already a forceful character, the Karmapa could be well positioned to speak for his people in the absence of the Dalai Lama or during the infancy of the Dalai Lama's next reincarnation.

"The three remained when Andy left and, although Brian was appointed head coach, he was a less forceful character than the other two, with whom he had been an equal.

Kemp, a more forceful character than his employer, kept claiming that there was no money.

Sedgwick's Laureth is such a vibrant and forceful character and, like Hazel and Augustus, she has a lot of poignant things to say about people who treat the ill or impaired differently.

"He was a very dominant, forceful character".

In her Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting – on show next month at the Queen's Gallery in Buckingham Palace in an exhibition called Portrait of the Artist – she depicts herself as a muscular, dynamic, forceful character, like the women who hold down Holofernes.