Between them, the first of Berg's Three Pieces took a few moments to cohere, but once it did, this Präludium and its two successors benefited from a trenchant and sometimes forceful reading with a logical, shapely flow.
Even more arresting is the forceful reading of the abolitionist and women's-rights advocate Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech by Deborah Payne, an African-American and crack addict who sleeps in a wheelchair in a parking garage.
Mr. Swann's forceful, sharply accented reading brought its own electricity to the score.
(Isherwood) 'HAMLET' Michael Cumpsty gives a forceful, intelligent reading of the title role in the Classic Stage Company's likably intimate production of Shakespeare's tale of doom-struck Danes.
The concert began with a solo piano work, "The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch" (2006), inspired by a brawl at a baseball game, and given a forceful, virtuosic reading by Blair McMillen.
Beyond a certain point, the effect of "oddly unEnglish shapes" on general readers of a translation tends to be estranging and forceful, in the sense of making it sound strange and so forcing them to stop reading it.
I thought his column was brilliant and forceful -- the whole thing is well worth reading -- and he came up with much snappier talking points that I usually manage here.
Roberts makes a forceful case for judicial self-restraint – for unelected federal judges not reading meaning into the Constitution based on their personal preferences – quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Learned Hand, and other great practitioners of that philosophy in the twentieth century.
In responding to a series of strikes by state workers, journalists and the police on Monday, the council issued a forceful exhortation that some read as a veiled threat, although it did not threaten specific penalties.
He dresses the way one is supposed to dress (checked shirt, no tie), he dutifully repeats his applause lines at every stop ("Last time there was hope and change — this time it's 'We hope to change the subject' "), he takes his body through motions and gestures meant to read as forceful and high-energy — and nothing happens.
"The commission is quite satisfied that there is no credible basis for Mr Terry's defence that his use of the words were directed at Ferdinand by way of forceful rejection and/or inquiry," read the report.
