Mr. Cuomo's record as a manager, though, shows that not everyone can thrive under his style: forceful, focused, insistent on results, and disinclined to entertain dissent.
Halbert, a big woman with short gray hair and a forceful, focussed demeanor, is now a coach at her own gym in Nashville, and in the past decade she has organized women's tournaments around the country.
Today, in the age of memoir, we don't need to apologize for speaking in the first person, but we still need to find a way to make a first person, fictional narrative forceful and focused.
Mr. McCall's campaign for governor, which has been dogged by a series of stumbles (some of them just plain silly), could probably use a more forceful and focused figure at the top.
It was a remarkably forceful and focused afternoon for Williams against Sharapova, the 19-year-old who has supplanted her as the sport's dominant personality and commercial enterprise.
He drew a blinding energy from his words but even more from the way he delivered them, a piece of theatre that ranked with his best: skilled, forceful and focused.
He then reprised "Will You Be There" and if Michael had been that forceful and focused on performance night, he'd probably still be in it.
Most compelling is footage of the man himself, in all his focused, forceful, articulate and determined charisma.
Her most forceful remarks, though, focused on China, a striking departure from her previous statements and one that reflected what she called "negative trends" that had worsened in recent weeks.
BEIJING — Apparently unnerved by an anonymous Internet campaign urging Chinese citizens to emulate the protests that have rocked the Middle East, Chinese authorities this week have begun a forceful and carefully focused clampdown on activities by foreigners that the government deems threatening to political stability.
