Sentence examples for potent ghost from inspiring English sources
The "Turkengefahr," or Turkish danger, is a still potent ghost in the history of Germany and especially Austria, where many battles were fought against the invading infidel.
Originally inspired by Ziegfeld's extravaganza, the Rockettes began performing at Radio City the year after the Follies run ended, and the most potent numbers in the Christmas show are like ghosts from the theater past.
A group of three ghost-dance dresses is an even more potent reminder of religious suppression.
Yet his ghost has continued to exert an ever-more potent fascination over rock musicians of all generations.
Gabriel Tosh is a mysterious arms dealer and a "spectre"—an elite ghost agent enhanced through the use of terrazine, a potent psionic reagent.
Obama versus McCain would be a contest not just between these two men but between the two most potent political images in post-world war two American history, between two ghosts with peculiarly long reaches over American politics.
(One thinks of Bush's fellow Toronto resident Michael Ondaatje and his recent novel, "Anil's Ghost," in which a troubled, solitary female protagonist enters a war zone with a potent mix of professional detachment and personal desire).
At last the (Uruguayan) ghost of 1950 can be laid to rest, sadly to be superseded by a much more potent and humiliating German spectre - the "Mineirazo".
