Clemens has been pitching powerfully, trying to help the Yankees snatch one more World Series title, to allow himself to slip one more ring on his thick finger.
Then begins the fight, which may be of low intensity (consisting of interlocking the horns and pushing each other in a standing position) or high intensity (consisting of their dropping to their knees and straining against each other powerfully, trying to remain in contact while their foreheads are nearly touching the ground).
I suppose I'm doing again the thing I said I was suspicious of: lifting a powerfully emotive idea from one world, and trying it out in a very different context.
But the problem is that social media is now so powerfully omnipresent its center of gravity is actively trying to pull everyone in — and its antisocial impacts frequently spill out and over the rest of us.
"My view is we've got to do it now, it's got to be big, it's got to be powerfully motivated -- so that's what we're trying to execute on," Lessig said.
And they've exposed the absurdity of trying to stamp out something that is so powerfully driven by the laws of supply and demand.
That said, it is the riveting but awful nitty-gritty of being - or, initially, trying to be - a professional composer that emerges powerfully from these pages.
His face expressionless, he sang with focused intensity — especially in "Hold Tight" and "Life Is Worth Living" — and danced in a powerfully unself-conscious way, as though he were simply a guy trying out moves for his own enjoyment.
The narrator is that brother's adult son, and in each very short, powerfully condensed story he excavates some small aspect of his relatives' lives, trying to understand why the family is so emotionally stunted.
On Friday in Chamonix, France, the powerfully built Cuche will try to repeat his victory from last season, while aiming to become the first racer to claim three consecutive downhill wins since Michael Walchhofer of Austria did so seven seasons ago.
Somewhat tamer, and among the best dishes I tried, were powerfully gamy pigeon breasts, served with white-bean gnocchi and an aromatic pea velouté, and lamb cutlets with a ballotine of offal, a gelatinous package not for the faint of heart but bliss for the rest of us.
