Sentence examples for potent character from inspiring English sources
The Girl in the Dark is a potent character, and it may soon appear onscreen.
Nonetheless, she is the book's only potent character, a smooth, confident seductress, using Benjamin for sex while he is her more or less passive object.
She sees and judges everything, and is a lioness in defence of Mariko Kida's Juliet, a similarly potent character who mixes wilfulness with self absorption and wide-eyed curiosity, qualities that colour her duets with Romeo.
It is not like, say, the 1950's, when the bad mother portrayed in best-selling advice books and magazines was a scarily potent character, capable of causing autism, homosexuality and the spread of Communism, while the good mother, like a domesticated superhero, upheld the American Way.
Perhaps the most potent character trait of traditional Jewish identity is a sense of the other, a respect for the other, an honoring of the other.
Scott Mendelson, also of The Huffington Post, felt that when you put the "glaring issues aside," the film "still works as a potent character study and a glimpse inside a world we'd rather pretend does not exist in America".
Miller, a wheezy-sounding 57-year-old from Maryland, is a comic-book legend – working for both the Marvel and DC powerhouses, re-tooling some of their most potent characters, notably Daredevil and Batman, and in doing so, turning comics into an accepted adult art form.
After On the Buses made him a star, there was probably little else that Lewis – a competent actor though of limited range – could do other than embrace the typecasting of so potent a character wholeheartedly, though off-screen photographs show a relaxed, easy-going, humorous face: the scowling, squinting, grotesque Blakey was very much a mask.
This makes Ted a more potent comedic character and works to make him much more likable.
Rare work it is when such fine details form a giant image with as potent a character as each quarter-inch of precise design.
It may lack the hit tunes that audiences expect from Puccini, but it contains some of his grandest, darkest music, and its heroine, Minnie, is one of the most potent female characters in opera — a saloon owner who plays men's games and then breaks down their macho codes.
