Sentence examples for peculiar force from inspiring English sources

It was expressed with peculiar force in the letters of Charlemagne's adviser Alcuin.

Because he talked so little, his words had a peculiar force; they were not worn dull from constant use.

Experts tracking Haiyan – the typhoon that would come to be known as the strongest in recorded history – had noted its peculiar force as it whipped up in the south Pacific around Tahiti and barrelled its way west.

This makes Szirtes sound like a political writer, which in a sense he is, being a concerned, intelligent citizen, but what gives his work its peculiar force is its powerful aesthetic impulse, most obviously in dealing with the visible world, a realm that provokes language without being exhausted by it and which is often silent in the face of enquiry.

The peculiar force of Mr. Poitier's speech lay in suggesting the difficulties he faced in Hollywood as well as the tragedy of all the lost potential, all the black actors and actresses who found neither roles nor recognition in that company town.

All political orders are unique as products of history and creations of the peculiar forces and conditions of their environment.

The prose in "Looking for Lincoln" often has this kind of pedantic fortissimo, but the sustained raking and display of anecdotes and artifacts — an effort that feels almost archeological — has a peculiar cumulative force.

And we also get a sense, perhaps for the first time, of the peculiar gravitational force that has kept that immense asteroid belt of friends and admirers orbiting around White all these years.

Some genetic abnormalities in laboratory-maintained cancer cell lines are now recognized to result from the peculiar selection forces acting on cells grown in bottles.

And race is not the only factor that can force peculiar contortions.

At the university, their biophysics program, designed to reduce physiology to applied physics and chemistry, influenced the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud and did much to purge physiology of vitalistic theories that depicted all organic matter as arising from a "life force" peculiar to living things and quite different from all known physical phenomena.