Sentence examples for power lay from inspiring English sources

She knew what power lay with the royal stare.

The power lay with the famous director and famous actor.

These were matter-of-fact pictures, whose power lay in their quiet, undemonstrative assurance.

Holly's power lay in his guitar parts and his inventive arrangements.

The film's power lay in the fact that the monster remained hidden in shadow until very near the end.

During most of Justin's reign, actual power lay in the hands of his nephew and successor, Justinian I.

"Dickens created these fictions that revealed the consequences of the industrial revolution, showed where the new power lay," he says.

The power lay in the detail and power was Caro's subject, every bit as much as Moses.

Yet for all of the film's exploration of law and tradition, Rabbi Kiel said its real power lay elsewhere.

You didn't have to follow all his allusions; Dylan's power lay in creating mystery, not resolving it.

One foreign leader told the New Yorker recently that the prince's power lay in knowing the king's real views when these differed from the official Saudi position.