Deliberately echoing the rambunctious Teddy Roosevelt, Obama's recent speech calling for an America that is "fair" reminded us all how powerfully he can state the case, and how powerfully we yearn for a leader who will demand the best from us and elected officials.
Gambling, with its allure, its lore, its cosmology of numbers and chance, the immense skill it demands, the wild hope and dizzying despair it summons, remains powerfully attractive — and lucrative — to Walsh.
I guess I never knew one could die so powerfully, confronting it with force and personal demands, like tearing up a ransom note.
And they've exposed the absurdity of trying to stamp out something that is so powerfully driven by the laws of supply and demand.
But China's economy has grown powerfully for the last two years mainly on the strength of investment-led domestic demand.
A demand for further changes, already stimulated by Wellington's own achievements, was powerfully reinforced by countrywide hardship during 1829 30 and canalized by Charles Grey, the 2nd Earl Grey, the Whig leader, into fresh moves for parliamentary reform that would allow industrial towns like Birmingham to have a voice in Parliament, in place of pocket boroughs owned by the nobility and gentry.
What I left with was a sense of how powerfully the events that really matter muscle their way to the front of consciousness and demand complete attention near the end of life, and of Moses's gentleness and generosity toward his old friend.
This program was created as a lark, but soon got to be in serious demand as game participants came to realize that seating relationships at the table could powerfully affect one's profit prospects for the evening.
Mary Jane, powerfully played by actress Gabrielle Union, is a single, black, middle-aged woman who juggles the demands of her career with the daily challenges of love, relationships and progress.
Whereas the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dancers tend to ride roughshod over a few of this work's intricacies (but sell it powerfully to the audience), these Miami dancers keep highlighting, with relish, some of Ms. Tharp's most startling demands.
