Sentence examples for mere force from inspiring English sources
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As he sat at a meeting with the venerable rocker and his other flunkies, Stuart didn't say much, but one could almost feel property values rising around him through the mere force of his presence.
The analogous method in the case of law-giving, the Athenian tells us, is to offer preludes to the laws that aim at persuasion, and it is this method that he proposes to follow in establishing the laws of Magnesia, condemning the alternative as the employment of mere force (Laws 722B-C).
These girls were propelling themselves across the stage using the mere force of their buttocks.
The arguments were flimsy and unmeaning, and the conclusions were fastened upon the premises by mere force".
The power of mere force is like the tying of a rope around a pig's belly and lifting it up to a ship while ignoring its cries.
Ought not the sole Commission vote against this ill-conceived venture, cast by Karen Philips who lives in West Harlem, to have influenced the chair who said, "The community is not going to buy in, unless it reflects their culture".? Failure to grasp how imperative these quandaries are, renders Amanda's beauty, her charm the graciousness, into mere forced elements of empty 'good form'.
Authoritarians exert mere power or brute force, but real leadership has a moral dimension capable of transforming and moving people in ways that mere transactional bargaining cannot.
She argued that "ought" has become "a word of mere mesmeric force", since it no longer has the corollary "because we are commanded by God".
Putting aside men of genius, who may succeed by mere cosmic force, your successful man of letters is your successful tradesman.
The better the biography, the worse: the great smooth luxurious Rolls reconverts the energy of the writer's ascent into mere horizontal force.
