She treats her potential and actual lovers with sometimes brutal contempt, an assertion of her own power that is also an acknowledgment of their power to hurt her feelings.
Clark, the most refined and sophisticated of critics, was also surreptitiously advancing a very British kind of popular paganism through his acknowledgment of the power of Eros.
In the genre category nearby is "Woman Frightened by a Thunderclap That Has Just Shattered a Tree Beside Her" (1798), a different acknowledgment of the power of nature.
Some acknowledgment of this power comes in a conversation with her husband, who tells the story that gives the movie its title, but everything that is radical, disturbing and true about "Catfish" belongs to the fabulist at its center.
If it's the latter – an acknowledgment of the power of the mind to produce monsters – then perhaps what we are seeing is the first rays of a more enlightened Europe.
As an acknowledgment of its power, Google has given Nicole Wong a central role in the company's decision-making process about what controversial user-generated content goes down or stays up on YouTube and other applications owned by Google, including Blogger, the blog site; Picasa, the photo-sharing site; and Orkut, the social networking site.
The worry alone is an acknowledgment of the power of natural selection.
Easy: The insiders don't feel powerful enough, the outsiders feel political office is a worthy acknowledgment of all the power they already have (and, of course, all the good they can do if people would only listen to them).
It seems inevitable that an acknowledgment of such star power will eventually lead to a fall, a big one, and one year and three months later, Drew succumbed.
(Us Weekly is creating a stand-alone issue devoted solely to her, an acknowledgment of her drawing power on the newsstand, and maybe also an act of collaborative savvy on the part of Ms. Swift).
