The attack further delayed hope of penetrating Al Qaeda's upper ranks, and also seemed potent evidence of militants' ability to strike back against their American pursuers.
The social-democratic N.D.P. seemed potent early on, but the polls right now predict a confrontation between the Conservative incumbent, Stephen Harper — a charmless but effective politician — and the Liberal's Justin Trudeau, the son of the one former Prime Minister who remains famous even in America.
It is an allegorical tale, but feels immediate and sharply detailed, not remote; it's on a tiny scale (a week in a nameless English village community, once upon a time) but seems potent and important; and it creates a narrator – the isolated widower Walter Thirsk – with a slightly archaic but spellbinding voice.
Admiration turns into wariness and jealousy, and what first struck everyone as perky and plucky now seems potent and threatening.
John Mendelsohn, writing for Rolling Stone, called it "breathtakingly recorded" and praised side two especially, equating it to "the whole of Sgt. Pepper" and stating, "That the Beatles can unify seemingly countless musical fragments and lyrical doodlings into a uniformly wonderful suite ... seems potent testimony that no, they've far from lost it, and no, they haven't stopped trying".
Both seem equally potent in regular doses, although D2 may be less potent in high doses.
With an alcohol content that can range from 20 to 40percentt, amari may seem a potent way to punctuate a long, tiring meal.
Called "Balancing Act," it is an unusual musical about mental illness, and it makes its creator seem a potent combination -- part Nancy Wilson, part Joan Rivers.
But after their innovations have pervaded the art form, they can seem less potent, coming to be seen more as stylistic inflexion points than enduringly nourishing works.
While religious fundamentalism may seem less potent in the UK than (say) the United States, there's surely nothing wrong with shunning it-couldn't-happen-here thinking and using Christmas as an excuse for a celebration of rationalism.
