Sentence examples for grave power from inspiring English sources

He gave full force to episodes of driving rhythm and vehement choral outbursts but kept tempos in check and exact, achieving fearsome intensity through a kind of grave power.

Mr. Rocque, testifying before the State Legislature's joint Environmental Committee earlier this year, said the bill might create a grave power shortage, potentially placing Connecticut this summer in the same league as power-starved California.

Curtis's photographs have been criticized for their nostalgia and sometimes fanciful relationship to the truth (he was known to remove traces of the modern world from his images), but there is no doubting their grave power.

The Napier earthquake of 1931, the Tangiwai railway disaster in '53, the 1968 Wahine shipwreck, the 1979 Mount Erebus air crash: people still tell these stories, and the names hold a stony, grave power.

As one UN worker puts it: "Congo is so green, you don't even see the graves".Western powers seem barely to have noticed the catastrophe.

He assisted on Graves's power-play goal in the first period, and Jan Hlavac's goal with 3 08 to play.

Don't try to B.S. the country into thinking it's some grave abuse of power.

Many Republican and Cuban American members of Congress are dismayed that Obama would meet with the head of the authoritarian government at all, given its grave abuses of power.

Jan Brady of The Buffalo News gave the album a rating of three-and-a-half stars out of five, noting that "Patton still acts wild but has matured as a singer", and describing "Digging the Grave" as a "power pop masterpiece".

Echoing again the words of Lincoln as he speaks to us from the grave, "the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed".

"Even from his grave he exerts some power over me.