Brosnan's performance is so forceful in the climactic scene with the Ghost that I don't think you could easily say where Polanski's own feelings about rendition lie.
Now regarded as an uncompromising masterpiece, it was a major box-office and critical failure in the States at the height of McCarthyism, despite a memorable performance by Kirk Douglas, who is at his most uningratiatingly forceful in virtually every scene.
Ms. Fili-Krushel has kept a low public profile, but has been a forceful presence behind the scenes, recently moving from her office on the 51st floor of 30 Rockefeller Center, near Mr. Burke's, to a new one on the third floor, where NBC News is based.
The election was also remarkable for announcing the forceful arrival onto the political scene of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (P.T.I ., the party led by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, after decades of domination by the Pakistan Peoples Party (P.P.P).
In the lakeside scenes, Rothbart, a forceful mime role, dances unnecessarily.
In contrast, when Miguel gets back together with his wife, the scene is one of forceful sex under a harsh light and on a worn mattress.
No assertion says as much about his convictions as the act of letting Dane Cook have the most forceful point in the best-known scene on "Louie" last season.
The scene is painful all right, but forceful.
More forceful histrionics might be welcome in a few crucial scenes of extremity and passion.
She did return to Lulu at the Met in 1985, this time as the Countess Geschwitz, "ultimately fragile and vulnerable rather than forceful, in keeping with her reduced vocal abilities … the final scene extremely poignant".
