Ms Barker's style is plain but powerful: she reminds me a little of Orwell.
"So long as Christianity remained a persecuted movement," she wrote, "the majority of Christian preachers proclaimed the plain and powerful message of freedom that appealed to so many people within the Roman world — perhaps especially to those who had never experienced freedom in their everyday lives".
Huygens's view of Titan on its way down made it plain that powerful currents have indeed carved the moon's surface.
Politicians have short-term goals: They need to win elections, give away perks and privileges to remain influential, fight enemies foreign and domestic, and just plain look "powerful" (which involves slamming fists on tables from time to time).
We are told that he was "plain and powerful in preaching, fervent in prayer", "a discerner of other men's spirits, and very much master of his own", skilful to "speak a word in due season to the conditions and capacities of most, especially to them that were weary, and wanted soul's rest"; "valiant in asserting the truth, bold in defending it, patient in suffering for it, immovable as a rock".
Behind the Métis were the powerful Plains tribes the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy, buffalo hunters not under the influence of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Like Olive, the stories are wry and plain but contain powerful life force.
But for the nerdy writers like me who find plain text more powerful than a Word document, this one is for you.
Bea Tusiani only tells us at the end of the book that she is a writer -- though it is plain enough how powerful a writer she is as she lets the story, the events she chronicles, show us so much about her daughter, her family, and our flawed mental health and medical systems.
With her powerful, plain-spoken approach to issues large (like Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait) and relatively small (the brief war over the Falkland Islands), she reawakened Britain's taste for military engagement.
