In Germany, Dilthey came close to pluralism, and Max Weber towards the end of his life presented a dramatic, forceful picture of the tragic conflict between incommensurable values, belief systems and ways of life (Weber 1918, esp. 117, 126, 147 8, 151 3; cf. Weber 1904, esp. 17 18).
But a new autobiography by Luft, "Judy and I" (Chicago Review Press), leaps beyond the personal specifics to project a forceful and distinctive picture of the making of "A Star Is Born" and of the larger world of entertainment in which the couple lived.
The middle ground within Abstract Expressionism is represented by several varied styles, ranging from the more lyrical, delicate imagery and fluid shapes in paintings by Guston and Frankenthaler to the more clearly structured, forceful, almost calligraphic pictures of Motherwell and Gottlieb.
All of the people in these pictures were forceful personalities.
Not a beautiful woman, in her pictures, but forceful, intelligent, athletic.
Elsewhere the mistral blows through the pictures in forceful parallel lines, flattening trees and vines, or the cypresses writhe and twist.
Reviewing the film in The New York Times in 1967, Bosley Crowther wrote, "Everything in this brilliant rendering of Mr. Joyce's extremely complex book into the medium of motion pictures is forceful and respectable cinema art".
That's not to mention the additional overshadowing presence of Jermaine Jones, who has blindsided his way back into the picture with his forceful performances for surprise MLS leaders Colorado Rapids.
Internet reviewer James Berardinelli called Contact "one of 1997's finest motion pictures, and is a forceful reminder that Hollywood is still capable of making magic".
"I was talking about vision being a spiritual and mental picture of your future that is forceful enough to mold your present," she says.
It is poignant, and a little unsettling, to look at those pictures of her now, following the forceful, heart-crushing testimony that she recently gave against Larry Nassar, the abusive former doctor for the U.S. gymnastics team.
