Sentence examples for savage power from inspiring English sources
There was that wonderful subtlety but there was savage power as well.
The leaders of apartheid had finally given up defending their savage power and negotiated to relinquish it.
John Muir, a turn-of-the-20th-century American naturalist, magnificently described an Alaskan glacier as "a tremendous impression of savage power".
His treatment also demonstrates the innate cruelty of social media, and in particular the savage power of Twitter, which first revealed the scientist's transgression.
Kiev was in the grip of a savage power struggle as several armies – assorted combinations of Bolsheviks, monarchists, nationalists, Germans and Poles – fought for control of the city.
I interviewed the widow of a man killed as a spy by Maoist extremists, a victim of a savage power struggle over power and money more than ideology.
The clutch is brutal, the power is savage and the handling... you really are on a knife edge.
This was highlighted when he said that "the savage only respects force, power, boldness, and decision".
Fuel my passion for peace to extinguish their savage lust for power.
Allen can sound disappointingly reductive, as when she defines Evelyn Waugh's "greatest strength" as "rude energy, amounting really to brutality"; she leaves out the idealist's obsession with honor, the savage moral outrage powering the rude energy, the elegant clarity that is such a counterpoise to it.
Consider Jacob Bailey of Massachusetts, a Harvard classmate of John Adams, who found that our Revolutionary heroes were a "set of surly & savage beings who have power in their hands and murder in their hearts".
