Sentence examples for fairly forceful from inspiring English sources

The night I was there, Katarina Dalayman was giving a fairly forceful performance as Brünnhilde — substantial in volume, dark in color, a bit edgy on top — but she was undermined by the business going on around her.

We spent the better part of four days atoning for sins hidden by the snow and being reminded in fairly forceful ways that Dad is really gone.

There were a few minor verbal skirmishes as the sympathizers departed, but the police were fairly forceful in keeping the two groups apart.

(Grace) They [doctors] were fairly forceful about getting it [Pap smear] after pregnancy they really pushed and I did it.

The new album, especially, features a huge range of room tones and vintage styles and presents a challenge for her live band, four skilled and forceful but fairly anonymous musicians.

His words were forceful, his argument fairly detailed.

In this crisis of identity, some of the criticism is directed at Keller and his team, for what is seen as a lack of forceful leadership, but the publisher has, fairly or not, become a particular source of concern; one Times Company executive who respects Sulzberger's commitment to journalism considers him no more than a business "figurehead".

Mostly, what Afghans need now is forceful leadership from their president to let them fairly choose his successor.

She's kept a fairly low profile since then, but her new book, SPECIAL EXITS (Fantagraphics, $26.99), is forceful, unsparing and equally concerned, in its way, with saying the unsayable.

"It was a fairly lonely sport for a woman in those days... she was very, very driven, a very determined, forceful athlete and a role model for many people," he said.

And prisoners, well, while they are fairly vocal when first entering prison, this drive to communicate seems to dim, and their responses become more physical and forceful.