Mrs. Standifer has developed some forceful phrases to describe her cause.
"When I was growing up, there was a warning for girls who were a little too rambunctious, too talkative, too ambitious," Elinor Harrison explained as she hurled herself about the stage in forceful tumbling phrases.
Christian's melodic sense, grasp of advanced harmony and the forceful deliberation of phrasing that was often considered more sax-like than guitar-like, revolutionised the way the fledgling electric instrument was played in jazz.
In the first few movements of Bach's "English Suite" No. 3 (BWV 808) his phrasing was forceful and hard edged, and it was not until the Sarabande that he so much as hinted that he had a softer side.
But she made an immediate impact, with an opening phrase simultaneously forceful and natural.
Months before, on the campaign trail, Trump appeared to revel in his forceful use of the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism," even when his critics grimaced.
In the the middle of the 20th century, however, when the Jesuits John Courtney Murray and Wilfrid Parsons began articulating Catholic understandings of the role of religion in American public life, the phrase found forceful advocates of its current meaning.
It's enough to make language mavens grimace: the more often we hear a phrase, the less forceful the impression it makes.
So the Met Office did say there was a 35 per cent chance or rain, which is how it turned out – but that was entirely lost on the public in the forceful catchiness of the "barbecue summer" phrase, which, of course, was chosen to make headlines.
One of the distinguishing features of Graham's early style was her elimination of linking steps and fluid transitions between movements, so that many of her dance phrases were short, stark, and forceful.
"Keep Cool With Coolidge" strikes me as more forceful than "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion," the ill-chosen phrase that sank James Blaine's campaign against Grover Cleveland, though both phrases were alliterative gems.
