Sentence examples for power potency from inspiring English sources

The concept of violence as force (minimalist conception) was refuted by Hannah Arendt, who established the distinction between power, potency (vigor), force, authority and violence.

Power and potency come in many fluid forms.

"You have huge power and potency at this age," Cronenberg continues.

Its political correlate is federalism and localism and its political outcome is a dramatic increase in the power and potency of individuals and communities.

This is important because it speaks to a range of male behaviours that have often been dismissed as minor nuisances – flashing, stealing underwear, making obscene phone calls – but that are all acts men do in order to reassure themselves of their power and potency.

It is difficult enough keeping pace with an attacker and keeping your eye on the ball without also having to predict when they are going to plant one foot in the ground and tie themselves in knots to get a cross or a shot away, while it tends to be the case that the way the ball is met with a sharp, quick jab increases the power and potency of the delivery.

And there's the tribal nature of motoring… We will still use cars to demonstrate our power and potency.

The specific difference is that natural forms possess power or potency which moves bodies and by which bodies move themselves while artifacts only move accidentally (Ibn Bâjja 2002a, Ḥayawân, p. 79).

In addition to dreams of sex being symbolic of intimacy, the sex act can often be symbolic of power and potency, or lack thereof.

They're pluripotent, meaning that they have the power, or potency to become many--pluri--different kinds of cells in an organism.

There is something that gay liberation practiced at the very beginning, which was so important, which is the power and potency of resisting normative regulations.