In "After the Reconciliation," Miéville herself co-stars alongside Godard in a dialectically theatrical drama that renders the conflicts of an enduring couple of forceful intellectuals all the more bitter, all the more painful, all the more romantic — and all the more artistically fruitful.
Together with the bassist Gregg August and the drummer Rudy Royston he fashioned a performance that was expressive, dynamic and forceful, marked by intellectual rigor as well as steady composure.
Wilkins was quiet and hated arguments; Franklin was forceful and thrived on intellectual debate.
She wasn't intellectually a forceful person.
The cast teems: look closely and you'll find Chow Yun-Fat as Yuan Yuan Shih-kai, the delusional early president of the Republic of China, and the director John Woo as the future president Lin Sen. As the firebrand intellectual Chen Duxiu, Feng Yuanzheng is a forceful presence.
Clinton's first Secretary of Defense, Les Aspin, a disorganized policy wonk, was disdained by the uniformed military (his successor, William Perry, was another intellectual, quieter and more efficient, but not a very forceful public advocate).
These are real concerns, admittedly, but I worry that we aren't making a forceful enough case to promising students about the value of creating a rigorous intellectual experience in college.
This of course had been equally true of his predecessors in the National Hospital: Jackson, Ferrier, Bastian, Gowers, and Horsley some of the greatest names in modern neurology and Holmes was perhaps the last of this remarkable group of men; all inexhaustible, forceful, and immensely able, who created the prestige of British neurology out of their own intellectual resources.
