Sentence examples for forceful figure from inspiring English sources

Apart from being the coming man in South Africa, he is by nature a more forceful figure.

As Eglantine, Lauren Flanigan is a forceful figure onstage, singing with scalding power when she decides not to give free rein to her vibrato.

The personification of American military power in the early 1990's, General Colin L. Powell is certain to cut a forceful figure as secretary of state.

Her replacement was rapidly announced: George Dixon, a former scheduler of BBC1 and BBC2, a forceful figure, and righthand man to Hunt when she ran BBC1.

There are two sides to her: she's got an in-built grit that allows her to cut a sometimes forceful figure on stage, spiky and confrontational; she's also got a hugely appealing sense of fun.

Ten years ago some of Britain's top swimmers may have felt the same about Bill Sweetenham, Sutton's fellow Aussie, a similarly blunt and forceful figure who served as British Swimming's performance director from 2000 to 2007.

Mr. Huhne, a former financial journalist who made a multimillion-dollar fortune in the investment business before his full-time entry into politics, has been one of the most forceful figures in the government.

In fact, she is one of her party's most forceful figures, adn some Republicans think she deserves a cabinet post in a new administration and even belonged on Mr. Bush's list of vice-presidential prospects.

The sentiment in the room was said to be unanimous, but it was driven by two forceful figures: Jerry Stackhouse, an 18-year veteran, and James, a three-time M.V.P. Amid an orgy of contrived competition, relentless marketing, tired events and semiscripted outcomes, James's sudden civic turn was perhaps the most real moment of the weekend.

C. 534 613 Burgundy, France Brunhild, also spelled Brunhilda, Brunhilde, or Brunechildis, French Brunehaut (born c. 534 died 613, Renève, Burgundy [now in France]) queen of the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia, daughter of the Visigothic king Athanagild, and one of the most forceful figures of the Merovingian age.

As the boy of the poems becomes a young man, Jones tries to get away from literal violence, embracing instead forceful figures for a welcome erotic appetite.