If it makes you feel power to boost someone else who is powerful, note that too.
There was one rather powerful note of consolation.
And that is why this collection, in a play-safe New York Fashion Week, brought the shows to close on a powerful note.
The novel loses its footing partway through, when the scope narrows and the dialogue grows stilted, but it finishes on a powerful note of moral murkiness that suits the gloomy, damp atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest.
Mary's speech about the personal cost of her peculiar position in Berenson's ménage strikes the evening's most wrenching and powerful note, and Ms. Knight delivers it with a quiet, captivating force.
Obama's victory helped push the arc of the moral universe along its way toward justice, sounding a powerful note in America's centuries-long turbulent blues song about race.
Dipping in to her back catalogue, she strikes a particularly powerful note on Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago, deftly picking apart the effect of the beauty myth – "Maybelline can't hide the lines of time that's gone" – as her own blond ringlets shake under the stage lights.
You don't notice it much in this anthology -- except insofar as many of the poems appear to have been written by people so freed of place that they don't seem to belong anywhere in particular -- but you hear it all the time, a powerful note, in the songs of Bruce Springsteen, say, and the novels of Philip Roth.
When a Louis C.K. riff hits a powerful note and the room goes hot in a palpable swell of laughter, you don't need the dramatic setups of "Louie& 8221 — you don't need to have the loneliness and disappointments of life acted out for you: you can feel them pouring spontaneously out of thousands of living people.
But what we are left with is a powerful note of sadness, as the great novelist, working alone in Lamb House, hears the sound "like a vague cry in the distance, of his own great solitude, and his memory working like grief, the past coming to him with its arm outstretched looking for comfort".
