In Boleyn's scene with Jane Seymour, Ms. Netrebko stared at Ekaterina Gubanova, her eyes glistening with a potent mixture of hatred and pity.
The Mexicans have never quite been able to summon their old potent blend of seething hatred and true skill, away from Estadio Azteca, that is.
Before the Nazi party adopted the swastika and turned it into the most potent icon of racial hatred, it traveled the world as a good luck symbol.
But a close-up of Ms. McNichol's hand lost in the inviting thickness of its fur — literally, the image of a girl and her dog — is a potent reminder of how hatred can be familiar, reassuringly close.
However, these people were killed in an act of mass hate driven by a potent combination of fundamentalism and hatred of American imperialism.
But of course bombing Gaza is potent fertilizer to the grasses of hatred.
After all, what is the Rapture, but the sweet synergy of festering resentments, self-hatred, and passivity acting in potent concert?
The obsessive hatred directed at this figure, once so potent, now pathetic, is a bit puzzling for an American to grasp; a writer in Figaro last night compared his detractors, in a rather hallucinatory way, to so many Woody Woodpeckers, making the point that they would have to find another figure to peck away at all day and night.
But their hatred of Mr. Hussein had an equally potent counterpoint: for them, the country that would rid them of their leader was not at all a bastion of freedom, dispatching its legions across the seas to defend liberty, but a greedy, menacing imperial power.
Saul Bellow, he said, wrote "in a style I find self-willed and unnatural," while William Styron, though immensely gifted, would be more "potent" if he showed "the moral courage to write a book equal to his hatred and therefore able to turn the consciousness of our time".
