Sentence examples for seemed potent from inspiring English sources

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.

His Beethoven was full of freshness and unusual insights that made the music seem potent and contemporary, and his Schnittke was delivered with the incisiveness and inevitability of a canonical masterpiece.

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".

ZMapp was a cocktail of three antibodies that seemed especially potent in killing Ebola.

The joy of being alive seemed more potent than worries about the Fall.

Nor was she supposed to be hugely attractive: The combination of feminine wit and beauty seemed too potent a cocktail to foist on the American public.

Rimsky-Korsakov's dramaturgical skills never seemed more potent than when "Kashchei" got going after intermission, its similar story treated by Mr. Lawless as a kind of sequel to the Sibelius.

As the crowds surged to cram the drawing boxes, and the presentations were lost in the chaos, it seemed a potent symbol of all that was right, and wrong, with Silicon Valley.