Sentence examples for has a certain power from inspiring English sources

And Rock Me Tonite still has a certain power.

"When we go into a room, or enter a playground," she said, "he has a certain power over young people; they listen to him.

"It is my belief that blood has a certain power and energy to it," said Mr. Eagles, 35, who lives in Manhattan.

A first-person account of life in an ant colony has a certain power but also the whiff of a creative writing exercise.

"The imprint has a certain power as far as what you can give a poet," Ms. Garrison says of Knopf, which publishes eight new hardcover volumes of poetry each year, in addition to paperback reprints, and receives about 1,000 submissions annually.

Lahiri found the focus on English "distressing … because it has a certain power and a certain readership and a certain commercial currency now", and she feels "there is so much literature that needs to be brought forward, and the danger now is that it's getting even less exposure".

But it had a certain power.

I had a certain power over him.

The quieter Biennale, which runs until Nov. 22, had a certain power.

The square itself was changed into something much harder and more urban by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, whose concrete pavilions have a certain power as architecture but give the sense that the square has become a rather unforgiving place.

The books had a certain power because the portraits they rendered were undermining the public image of the smiling, contented athlete — one whose contract demands were inevitably played in the press as "greedy".