The cast, asked to do a lot with basically a string of anecdotes, is sharp and forceful, especially Kim Weston-Moran and Verna Hampton as the two oldest soldiers, and Macah Coates as a young recruit from Wisconsin.
It can make us seem less sharp and forceful.
Mr. Huebner closed his set with "Trepidus," a 1983 work built on harmonically sharp-edged forceful chords and grand gestures that would have sounded at home in the organ music of Vierne or Franck, if not for their brash dissonances.
Where Senator McCain was unserious and petulant, Senator Obama was forceful, sharp and, at times, magnanimous.
You could wonder, at times, whether you were reading more into the instrumental works than the composers had intended, although the Nash Ensemble's forceful, sharp-edged performances certainly encouraged such speculation.
She was "shrill", never forceful.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, the Bush choice for secretary of defense, will come to the job with a history of having filled it once before, a history marked by sharp disputes with a forceful secretary of state.
On Tuesday she was on the bench, nearly as forceful, her sharp questions setting the tone for a defense of limits on political contributions and drawing caustic retorts from opposing justices.
My sister has a forceful personality and a sharp tongue.
Mixed in were the unfortunate, clichéd sounds of the dancers, who accompanied their forceful jabs of movement with sharp grunts, gasps and hisses.
