Sentence examples for seemed a powerful from inspiring English sources

For a time, Diem seemed a powerful and successful leader, able to stop any efforts by the Viet Minh to conquer the South.

Completed – or so he thought - at the moment of his country's greatest peril with Hitler's forces camped in the Moscow suburbs, Sergei Prokofiev's operatic adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace must have seemed a powerful and patriotic artistic response to the horrors of the conflict engulfing his homeland.

There are few names more identified with the soul of jazz than the pianist Thelonious Monk, so it seemed a powerful statement about this city's coming of age as a modern jazz center when the prestigious education institute started by his heirs moved from Boston to the University of Southern California last year.

IF THE strength of Chinese nationalism were to be gauged by its expression on the internet, it would seem a powerful force indeed.

The use of genetically modified animal models that spontaneously develop gliomas, therefore, seems a powerful approach [ 5, 59] and quite recently the generation of a mouse GBM model in a region- and cell type-specific manner using intracerebral lentiviral transduction was reported [ 92].

In his article on Bushmaster, Mr. Blatt wrote that the guns seemed "a mite too powerful and penetrating" for home defense.

Listening to music, the bass seemed a little more powerful than without them and the highs came through, not just more quietly, but slightly altered.

His message may have seemed like a powerful one, and some execs surely took it to heart, but it didn't seem to stick for very long.

All that was needed, it seemed, was a powerful stream of microwave pulses to fry the offending amplifier's output transistors.

That seemed like a powerful metaphor for doubt".ß Such details, Mr. Shanley said, make it increasingly difficult to tell art from memory.

"We started talking about how folks effect change and what was interesting to us was that anyone can start a super PAC and become a part of the process, and that seemed like a powerful proposition to us," Knapp said.