Sentence examples for once forceful from inspiring English sources

Singers found it difficult, if not impossible, to be at once forceful and elegant.

It's a bewitching voice, at once forceful and fragile, violent and vulnerable.

But as he prepares to deliver the speech, his once-forceful views have grown muddy, Noah Bierman writes.

Along with foreign secretary William Hague, once a forceful Eurosceptic but nowadays more the diplomat, they have been drawn in to the euro crisis and find themselves at the centre of arguments about its future.

And this explains why that love seems at once so forceful and so fugitive, and why, "while we speak of this, and yearn toward it," as Augustine says, "we barely touch it in a quick shudder of the heart".

The voice — at once pedantic and forceful, and strangely aged and pampered — was the most fun of all.

But he also allowed some fine things to happen in the orchestra: lovely liquid smoothness from the strings in the piano concerto; playing at once sensitive and forceful in the Shostakovich, which just before its close held its breath in a wonderful timpani solo, dying away to almost nothing before the rest of the instruments came flooding back to fill the void.

He said that Facebook might be forced to deliver a forceful rebuttal once the film has its premiere, especially if it turned out to be a hit.

Spin certainly helped in getting Blair into Downing Street but, once in office, its forceful application was resented by newspaper and broadcasting editors.

There are expectations for even more forceful action once Masaaki Shirakawa, the current governor, and his two deputies depart on March 19th.

Once Hank Steinbrenner gave his forceful opinion about Joba Chamberlain's pitching future with the Yankees, the voice mail and e-mail messages began piling up for Brian Cashman.