Sentence examples for potent figures from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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

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

THE commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the death of Arnold Schoenberg last year brought a renewed awareness of that composer as a potent figure in American musical life.

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

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.

But far beyond his continuing commercial significance, Hendrix is a particularly potent figure for our time, perhaps even more intriguing in symbolic terms now than at the time of his death.

But what, aside from his undeniable skill at rallying the support of the Russian public, has made Mr. Putin such a potent figure, giving him a growing band of admirers like Mr. Trump and any number of right-wing populist leaders scattered across Europe?