Sentence examples for terrific force from inspiring English sources

My mother was a terrific force in my life.

The bomb, says Stephen, felt like being pushed forward by a terrific force.

Atkinson's fluting high dudgeon and Ebersole's flirtatious hostility create a terrific force field for Everett's droll reactions.

Antonio Carmena brought terrific force to the Bluebird solo and coda; even a prestissimo tempo couldn't make his dancing blurry.

At the end he stamped his foot with terrific force and stood, covered in stars, resplendent, staring through the peeling layers of night air.

I thought that The Human Stain had terrific force and power but it does seem to be unstructured, happening rather than being made.

But if the oil spill worked its way obliquely into Mr. Zeitlin's script, the story he put on screen remained fundamentally hopeful: a modern-day Louisiana folk tale about the power of a tiny subculture — obscure, imperiled, but with more holidays than anyplace else on earth — to fight back against terrific forces of nature.

The black holes' terrific gravitational force probably sucks in gas and dust swirling within young galaxies.

It's another circle dance, and with the twosomes replacing one another and moving with vigor in opposite directions, the choreography generates terrific gyroscopic force.

The dancing, choreographed by Gillian Lynne, is a string of terrific tours de force.

"It is a terrific tour de force to be able to detect those mutations in such small quantities," said Dr. Kenneth Offit, a geneticist at Sloan-Kettering.