Does he really think that adding a question at the end of a paragraph makes it more forceful?
The sculpture of Balzac is forceful enough in the flesh, or in the stone, but Steichen's photograph makes it more brooding still, adopting a low angle that heightens the figure's bullish thrust against a drapery of dusk.
In Paula Wolfert's "The Cooking of Southwest France," two-star chef Alain Dutournier of Carré des Feuillants, who grew up in the region, characterizes the differences between the two spirits this way: "Cognac is dependable, but Armagnac, like the Gascons who make it, is more forceful, more complicated — even excessive at times — and more exciting".
The source of this conflict is the scarcity of water resources in Palestine and Jordan and several of the Arab players' attempts to wrest their rights to them from Israel, making it all the more forceful.
But unless they begin to make a more forceful case against the trend itself, it will only gather in force.
Maybe the left needs to emulate the right and make a more forceful political — and moral — case for the policies it believes in.
Justice Durham says that despite her concerns, sending women on missions may make them more forceful when they return.
So why can't President Obama and the people around him make a more forceful argument for a military engagement that is absolutely defensible, putting Republicans on the defensive?
For months, Democrats in Congress and progressive groups have urged the White House to make a more forceful defense of the health care law, which is denounced almost daily by Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates.
"If you've got 95 percent of them saying one thing, it becomes far more difficult to go against them," he said, adding that the president needed to make a more forceful and convincing case to the public if he wanted Congressional consent for an attack.
