Sentence examples for potent figure from inspiring English sources

Shades of the earlier games' Little Sisters, then, but Elizabeth proves to be a far more potent figure.

We miss the grandeur that made Byron -- fallible, vain and narcissistic as he was -- such a potent figure in his time.

"Their Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time".

The One That Got Away is a potent figure in novels, films, love songs – and real life.

Musa Sadr, who would now be 84, remains a potent figure more than three decades after his disappearance.

The tradition is, of course, that she knew his divinity from the start, and she remains still a potent figure in Christian myth and worship, but tradition is not text.

In fact, despite the relentless and often compelling challenges mounted against virtually all of his ideas, Freud has remained one of the most potent figures in the intellectual landscape of the 20th century.

The purge suggests that Kim believes he has sufficiently consolidated his rule to take the gamble of dumping one of the most potent figures in the North Korean leadership.

Saleh remains ensconced at his heavily guarded compound, a still-potent figure who many see as plotting a return to power, navigating alliances of convenience amid the atmosphere of intrigue and uncertainty.

(Think of the Eastern Europeans who showed that Frank Zappa was a more potent political figure than Leo Strauss).

Nearly a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. bin Laden remains a potent symbolic figure.