Sentence examples for strikingly powerful from inspiring English sources

Forecasters said the hurricane was a strikingly powerful storm that could reach far inland.

Nigel Williams also adapted Lord of the Flies for the stage in a strikingly powerful version that has helped sustain the novel's afterlife.

Her older tracks are still strikingly powerful; that self-titled debut established a seductive shtick, with flamenco and surf-toned guitar and a heavy, ominous, lust-charged lushness.

Goldstone sees Sen sharpen his criticism of the displacement of Indigenous Australians, and intensify all the slow-burning tension, strikingly powerful use of silence, and visionary landscape photography of his earlier piece.

As a pet becomes an increasingly vital member of the family, the threat of violence to that pet becomes a strikingly powerful intimidating force for the abuser: an effective way for a petty potentate to keep the subjects of his perceived realm in his thrall.

But as an audience member remarked on Friday, the dynamics on the powerful, strikingly raw new recording may be even more vivid than their live counterparts.

The fusion of man and machine looked top-heavy and precarious, but his pedalling was strikingly efficient, unstrenuous yet powerful.

His poem "Peggy Lutz, Fred Muth," dated December 13 , 2008 is strikingly crafted and as powerful and moving a poem as one is apt to encounter anywhere, in any generation.

The Intruder (1969) is a powerful and strikingly original description of a teenager's struggle to hold on to his own identity.

(Dave Kehr) Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions (Friday through Thursday) China's economic transformation during the last two decades has yielded some powerful and strikingly original documentaries and fiction films grounded in documentary observation, made both with and without government sanction.

She is gifted with a wonderful physiognomy and figure for dance: large, dark eyes; a small head; and a strikingly slender waist above powerful legs, with, as they say, curves in all the right places.