Sentence examples for rather forceful from inspiring English sources

Danny Sullivan, another former newspaper guy now steeped in the Web, deconstructed Mr. Thompson's remarks and asked him, in rather forceful terms, to close his piehole.

When the Ravens did score against the Titans to tie the game at 7-7, Billick was captured on television turning to the Tennessee bench and mouthing a rather forceful expletive.

On a personal level, today's lessons include "If You're Still In The Pub When Somebody Says 'Right … Bessht Five Albumsshh Of All-Time …' Then You've Been There Too Long" and, I'm predicting, several rather forceful lectures on The Importance Of Avoiding Fried Chicken Shops Of Exceptionally Dubious Provenance".

Ms Martin disapproves of the use of rather forceful incentives, such as denying obese people life insurance, as insurance is about mutuality of risk so we'll have to ensure everyone is insurable - though she points out that someone with diabetes and a body mass index of more than 35 will pay twice as much for life insurance.

I got thrown out actually; I was given a rather forceful ejection".

These outfits have a rather forceful way of reviewing books, and the Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti (The Save Education Committee) seems to have done their thumbs down pretty strongly.

But here the director and Jimmy McGovern, the screenwriter, crank up the dramatic intensity in ways that are forced and confusing rather than forceful and illuminating.

Mr Badawi is seen as friendly rather than forceful.

Into its ninth minute the game goes… and back to advantage goes Li with some more, rather belatedly forceful play at the Williams forehand.

She did return to Lulu at the Met in 1985, this time as the Countess Geschwitz, "ultimately fragile and vulnerable rather than forceful, in keeping with her reduced vocal abilities … the final scene extremely poignant".

A few of us told people to calm down, perhaps in rather more forceful language than that, but to calm down, which they did, with great respect to them, they did very quickly.