Sentence examples for terrific forces from inspiring English sources

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 first movement's conflict hit home with terrific force.

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.

Later, in her trademark finale, she backhands gladiolus into the audience with terrific force, then gets the audience to stand, "thrust," and "tremble" the flowers.

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

The works are presented, one by one or in small groups, along serpentine walls covered with dark-gray wool felt, effecting point-blank encounters with their often terrific force.

She ran all night with a free sheet but on the morning of 4 March the wind shifted to south-west, and then suddenly to north-west, and blew with terrific force.