Sentence examples for potent scene from inspiring English sources
In a potent scene near the end of the movie, Julianne Moore walks along a railway station platform.
In a potent scene before a parliamentary committee, Dame Judi summons Tennyson's restless Ulysses: "That which we are, we are".
And in the most viscerally potent scene in the play, Chad L. Coleman evokes gasps as his character, a proud and skeptical man named Caleb Humphries, undergoes a painful and unnecessary spinal tap.
A potent scene in the novel recounts Vidya's time spent outside the home in the family's outhouse for menstruating women.
When the shattered Sabina continues her studies with Freud, in a potent scene the great man cites their bond as fellow Jews, adding that Jung displays an "Aryan" coldness.
In Night Train, that swirling, potent scene, we are watching a train recede into the distance as two people in the last car look back at us and wave or sing a duet or (towards the end) enact a dramatic moment.
One depends on bodies being tossed and torn, whereas the most potent scenes in "Loving" consist of Mildred on the phone, listening to news from the Court.
She is taken in and nursed back to health by a young clergyman, St. John Rivers Jamie Belll), and his two sisters (Holliday Grainger and Tamzin Merchant); then her earlier life unfolds in a series of flashbacks that compress many pages into a few potent scenes and images.
It has also been praised for showing "potent scenes" of a woman coming to terms with her diagnosis, scenes that also provided "rare opportunities" to portray a cancer patient "behaving badly" and depicting "ambivalent feelings (such as denial or anger)" — as it had been noted that cancer patients are typically portrayed in the media as "beatific, serene figures".
It is a potent, devastating scene, ending with the song "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?" But scene may be the wrong word.
She was agile and fresh in passages from "Ipermestra" and from Vittori's "Galatea," and achingly potent in a scene from "L'Empio Punito" by Melani.
