Sentence examples for potency lies from inspiring English sources

That CD's potency lies in the match of softly fuzzed-out guitars, string arrangements that take each song to a crescendo, and the wickedly dry wit of the singer Gordon McIntyre.

Dream sequences and flashbacks return us to his heartbreakingly happy childhood before the war, and part of the title's potency lies in showing how long his childhood has lasted, long enough to encompass peace and war.

But it's in the coming together of these two – the marriage between the personal and the public, the individual experience and the universal – that the diary's particular potency lies.

Not carrying the venomous poison that Black Friday wields for forecasting holiday product sales, Grey Thursday's potency lies in what it could potentially do to family time on this day of thanks.

This potency lies in two conserved domains, the basic region and helix-loop-helix (i.e. the bHLH).

Perhaps the chief moral potency of literature lies in its unique power to stimulate and develop the faculty of the imagination.

A comparison of the effective dose in 50% of patients (ED50) has suggested that the potency of levobupivacaine lies between that of bupivacaine and ropivacaine.

The potency of the threat lies in physics.

The potency of my solution lies in the idea that people do not consciously wish to harm themselves; I feel much safer on a plane because the pilot, and not a drone, is at the controls.

Sometimes the potency of cultural icons lies in the ghosts of the emotions exiled by their radical simplicity -- the sissy in John Wayne, the nerd in James Dean and the part of sweet, helpless Marilyn Monroe that was, after all, the captain of her soul.

Imagining the aura of the male bodies around him at school, he sees it as "a kind of oriflamme, if that means the golden banner a knight wraps himself in"; he could by now have found out if it does mean that, but the potency of the word lies in that first teenage surrender to its literary magic, and to its protection.