Sentence examples for forceful i from inspiring English sources

The Supremes and the Temptations joined forces in 1968, with Diana Ross and Eddie Kendricks trading vocals in the driven, forceful I'm Gonna Make You Love Me, perhaps the most ambitious thing any individual can aim for, love being capricious, whimsical and elusive.

If he could only come across as more forceful, I think he'd have a chance".

Would he have if they had been allowed to be a bit more forceful?' I don't know".

The man who chained them up, denied them food, beat them, and threatened to kill them didn't see the sex as "forceful" — "I learned that these girls were not virgins".

"I saw right off that I have to change my demeanor: I have to be more forceful; I have to harden myself," said Ms. Williams, a single mother of two grown daughters.

The forceful "I'm" has been replaced by "you're".

With faceless bureaucrats over the phone, Mr. Riccardi is polite but forceful: "Is it possible you can ask your supervisor to access that information?" But even an attack dog will bounce off a wall built of absurdities: "The call volume is too high, so you can't answer my question now?" By early afternoon, Mr. Riccardi, who has worked through lunch, buries his head in his hands.

I want to say in the most forceful way I can: I certainly hope so".

"I had to finally be forceful, so I said, 'Shawn, please wake up!' " And it worked.

"I shut the front door and leant against the door to try to stop water coming in but it was so forceful that I couldn't hold it any longer so I ran into the lounge and it just burst the front door open and it all rushed in," she said.

Nurses have always had their ways of nudging a doctor into doing the right thing, ranging from the gentle reminder ("Um, did you forget to put on your mask, doctor?") to more forceful methods (I've had a nurse bodycheck me when she thought I hadn't put enough drapes on a patient).