Sentence examples for factual power from inspiring English sources

The real issue isn't the script, or the motivations, or the characters; it's the cinema itself, its direct and factual power.

This combination of figurative and factual power is something that all creative artists aspire to - which helps to explain why one of the best-known myths, the story of Orpheus, should have been so often retold through the centuries.

In this view a decision award is reminiscent of a board resolution, which executes the decision authority of the entire organization but at the same time seizes its factual power from the fact that it can be enforced in court if necessary.

But as it turns out, HBO's dramatic series does a far better job of examining the complexities of addiction than what appeared to have the factual power of a real journalistic investigation.

A pope who falls into heresy loses office ipso facto, but still has to be removed from factual exercise of papal power; a pope who is not a heretic but is accused of serious sin (e.g. unjust interference with the rights of lay people) needs to be tried and then, if guilty, deposed.

On BBC2, the new factual series Simon Schama's Power of Art opened with 1.5 million viewers and a 7% share between 9pm and 10pm.

The natural right to freedom of thought and judgment and to "inner" religion cannot, however, be entrusted to the state; here political authority finds the factual limits of its power.

"We are speaking here about a factual destabilization of the state power in Ukraine," one official, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, told reporters.

Pope, who is also head of factual drama at ITV Productions, stressed the power of real-life stories in dramas such as Appropriate Adult and Mrs Biggs.

That is to give the hearing officer the power to make a factual and legal determination based on a proper examination of the evidence; the 27 commissioners would then have to accept or reject this.

As a recovering lawyer, I have always known the power of great storytelling, whether of the factual or non-factual variety, of truth-telling in moving people, sometimes more profoundly, than mainstream politics or even the law.