There were plentiful signs in recent days that the voters turning out to see Mr. Obama liked his forceful tone, with several audiences chanting along with him, "Eight is Enough!
A 1939 profile of Helen Frick by John McCarten in The New Yorker described her as "a frail little woman, weighing less than 100 pounds... who looks not at all like the forceful character that she really is".
"It looks like a forceful kiss.
A willfully jarring collision of tones and textures, White's show — bathed in the blue light he's used since going solo in 2012 — felt like a forceful argument that hand-played roots music can still speak to (and about) our times.
The melodies and arrangements here are composed by the two saxophonists together; the tracks can be forceful like "Ganesha," or gorgeously solemn like "Kalyani," but they're not just vamping and soloing.
He had to do something really forceful, like asking for a resolution authorizing the use of force against Saddam.
Her predecessor, Joel I. Klein, liked to make quick, forceful decisions.
Her descent into an almost zombie-like catatonic depression is forceful and very sincere, but it is impossible not to remember that the stunned, glassy-eyed look is something Von Trier has elicited from other leading ladies, including Björk and Nicole Kidman: a Meg-Ryan-on-Parky look.
On many accounts, America was led into a decade-long war in Iraq, not by the President who must bear its legacy, but by his Number 2, "the man behind the curtain," whose quiet but forceful Oz-like wizardry left an indelible mark on this country and, indeed, the world.
Bond has a harsh voice with a deep baritone lower register that sounds a little like a more forceful David Bowie.
