Sentence examples for powerfully popular from inspiring English sources

Daytime dramas were transgressive, unhinged from traditional expectations, loopy in their freedoms and powerfully popular.

My friends in Rome tell me that, powerfully popular as Pope John Paul II was among the people, Benedict -- by his shyness, diffidence, and respect for others -- quickly became even more so.

How else do you think he earned his own hit NBC sitcom (Seinfeld) that literaly DOMINATED television sets across this great nation throughout the 1990s and left a mark that still courses thru the landscape of popular culture more powerfully than the mighty Missisippi?

Falling back on such displays of traditional rulership is a sign that the ruling family is struggling to adapt to the zeitgeist of popular empowerment moving so powerfully through the region.

Considering that blurriness in the line between fiction and reality is our condition, the opera, seemingly a relic, speaks as powerfully and disturbingly as Mozart's more popular works to our time.

In the 1980s, a decade in which feminist theory more powerfully influenced art-world thinking if not popular marketing, the chances of Mr. Ramos's being seen as anything but an outmoded sexist Neanderthal were nil.

Far more powerfully than polemics and statistics, fictional characters in popular culture can open the mind and surprisingly speedily.

The arch-sentimentalist of popular reputation can write prose as powerfully reticent and allusive as any in our language.

One night we asked our server whether the powerfully refreshing sweet-sour sodas called drinking vinegars were popular in Thailand.

And yet, in the popular imagination, Sybil and her fractured self remained powerfully tied to the idea of M.P.D. and the childhood traumas it was said to stem from.

Romney, far less obviously talented as a politician than Barack Obama — or, for that matter, than George W. Bush or John McCain (both of whom, in their best days, could connect powerfully with a crowd) — came very close to winning the national popular vote and outperformed McCain in 2008 by quite a lot, in both electoral and popular votes.