The literal content (locutionary force) of a pornographic work may be the depiction of a particular sexual act, and this may have the effect (perlocutionary force) of arousing particular viewers and shaping their attitudes toward women.
U.S. military force, especially, arouses his rage, for it reminds him of the compromises made by Adenauer's Germany to join the Cold War.
The plotting of this first novel may strain credulity, but when a young woman who has been promised the world is sentenced to eight years of solitary confinement inside her own head, her high-tech ordeal is evoked in a stylistic and psychological tour de force that arouses both pity and terror.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the long-serving prime minister of Canada who successfully defended his vision of federalism and a unified nation against the aroused forces of Quebec separatism, died yesterday in Montreal.
Mr. Obama acknowledged that the embassy in Baghdad would maintain a larger-than-normal security force — a decision that has aroused criticism among some Iraqis.
But, after his release from the contract, he played with "so much delicacy, brilliance, force and harmony, that he aroused in the souls of the congregation all the sentiments he wished, thereby sharpening the regret with which all felt the loss they were about to sustain".
He's as aroused by underhandedly forcing Lady Chung to confront her own hidden carnal nature as he is by constructing the meticulous imposture to take advantage of her.
During the 1995 Newt Gingrich-led broadside on clean water laws and other environmental safeguards, it was an aroused public that forced the House speaker's troops to beat a hasty retreat.
But it is the military intervention of the party on the side of regime forces in Syria that has aroused the most intense hostility against it in the region.
"We believe that the use of force can arouse rancour and hatred, fuel a clash of identities, of cultures," Dominique de Villepin, the French foreign minister, declared in a speech to the UN Security Council two weeks before the invasion.
