Sentence examples for potent work from inspiring English sources

The cast did potent work under trying circumstances.

It has also given rise to the most potent work of art that Jonathan Safran Foer has yet produced.

** Yet Lamming's criticism isn't entirely valid, either: Naipaul _is fundamentally a West Indian novelist, and the region is the scene of some of his most potent work.

Some cuts should only heighten the impact of what is already an immensely potent work, one that may prove pivotal in the composer's output.

Out of the struggle to fulfill the "strange yearning... for something unobtainable," she has herself created an apparently simple yet potent work of art.

In this tremendously potent work, there are few obvious displays of emotion, yet "Max" is full of imagery that slips between real life and dance in fleeting flashes.

This AWD model feels quite potent, working smoothly through a seven-speed dual-clutch auto box.

Mr. Macdonald (a superb director of small-scale but potent works by Caryl Churchill and Christopher Shinn) subversively begins his production on a note of anticlimax.

Walking through the de Young, you begin to wonder why we tend to think of new museums as being either potent works of architecture or sensitive environments for art, when this museum so deftly manages to be both.

Influenced by the politically potent works of Marc Blitzstein (The Cradle Will Rock, 1937; Regina, 1946 49), Bernstein's stage works blur the boundaries between opera and that peculiarly American genre, the Broadway musical.

"Sun-Treader," which Ruggles completed in 1931, is one of the most potent works ever conceived in an atonal idiom, and under Tilson Thomas it took on Beethovenian inevitability, not to mention Mahlerian heat in the section marked "Serene, but with great expression".