Sentence examples for fatal power from inspiring English sources

"It is the fatal power of the imagination working through unmitigated terror," Cannon wrote.

To build on a structure in which the Israeli government and a future Palestinian government will be seen as inherently to blame for the actions of extremists — "You're sovereign, so you're responsible" — is to cede permanent, fatal power to those very extremists.

Proust, it seems, swooned upon seeing it when it traveled to Paris, then gave it fatal power in fiction.

At what time will Mt. Righteous finally unleash it fatal power?

A gun on one's hip poses an odd, primal asymmetry in conversation; suddenly there's a fickle, testy elephant in the room with fatal powers.

The creators are in the midst of heavily reworking the musical's book — based on the 1974 Stephen King novel about a misfit girl with fatal telekinetic powers — as well as its score to create a more serious psychological drama about adolescence, bullying and one awfully complicated mother-daughter relationship, Mr. Arima said.

The two states could do nothing but profit from the agreement, for a defeat would have been fatal to either power and a victory hazardous.

What is the reader to make of fiction that underscores men's dumb lust and women's emotional opacity, not to mention their fatal, black-widow power?

Nicholas D. Kristof is correct in his suggestion that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will not be resolved as long as Yasir Arafat and Ariel Sharon remain in power ("Fatal Delusions," column, April 9).

Corporate influence, with its fatal mix of power, money and unaccountability, is particularly potent and dangerous in frail states where corporations are insufficiently or ineffectually regulated, and where the purchasing power of a large company can outbid or overwhelm an underfunded government.

Not-so-subtly channelling the spirit of the predatory femme fatal, Adler's power became, in Moffat's hands, less a matter of brains, and more a matter of knowing "what men like" and how to give it to them; of having them by the sexual short and curlies, or, perhaps more aptly, on a nice short leash.