Sentence examples for a simple but potent from inspiring English sources

It's a simple but potent act.

Economists approach political competition with a simple but potent hypothesis called the "median voter theorem".

One, the scene picks up on a simple but potent refrain that has rung through Anderson's work from the beginning.

"Twelve Chairs," which explores states of rejection and survival, is based on a simple but potent structural idea: the game of musical chairs.

This is an opulently detailed exposition of a simple but potent idea: that music is on some level the same everywhere, and that classical music is no longer a European art.

We posed a simple but potent question: Why is Jessica Jones important?

A quiet, simple, but potent song, of which there are other renditions, including a good one by Anne Briggs, but here it is Pentangle.

Or was it all down to the simple but potent combination of a range of gifted film-makers generating some of their best ideas at the exact point when the indie boom of the 90s finally opened the artistic floodgates with financiers and distributors, in what were, of course, the economic good old days?

Of course, this way of talking risks making a poet into a pedant — but the odd thing is that the pedantry, the insistence on singing good songs, is one simple but potent reason that Sinatra was such a good singer.

During the campaign, she conveyed the simple but potent message that the time had come for democracy.

The approach, which has come to be known as open-book management, rests on the simple but potent idea that companies do better when employees care not just about quality, efficiency, or any other single performance variable but about the same thing that senior managers are supposed to care about: the success of the business.