"Many of my childhood memories are of metals: these seemed to exert a power on me from the start".
Snow exerts a power over everybody, and books on snow have a natural allure, crossing, I would guess, all latitudes.
Like all great artists, he exerts a power that his successors must struggle with; he is influential, even decisive — and inimitable.
Such decisions, Dr. Earls has shown, exert a power over a neighborhood's crime rate strong enough to overcome the far better known influences of race, income, family and individual temperament.
The wife of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia, told her mother that she did not share her concerns about improving the rights of women, because wives already exerted "a power which no king or conqueror can cope with".
The making of art is inherently less dramatic than the making of history, and the Paris Commune exerts a power that John Singer Sergeant's painting of Madame Gautreau or Saint-Gaudens's casting of Admiral Farragut may not.
Steele has since entered Army folklore as a cautionary figure — a man who travelled to a murderous place believing, as Conrad's Mr. Kurtz did, that with the "simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded," but ultimately concluding it necessary to "exterminate all the brutes".
But if this solution has a flaw, it lies in the asymmetry -- the Sunday shows simply exert a power and a draw and a space in the newshole that's just not going to be matched with some late-week online follow-up edition.
Forgetting God's guidance, Moses places himself in the role of ruler, exerting a false power and control.
It is a living breathing fact, exerting a mighty power over the nation of which it is the bond of the Union.
