And from quiet acceptance, a few people have gone to forceful action.
A sour political environment has left almost no Democratic senator on the ballot immune to forceful challenges by Republicans.
Then, to forceful piano music by Arthur Levering played by Donald Berman, they made their arm movements imitate swimming.
And their misguided attempt to split the pain won them no love in Cyprus or Russia, whose diplomat to the European Union called it "similar to forceful expropriation".
Sharp swings, from awkward constraint and self-deprecation to forceful assertion, shape not only Ms. Wood's conversation but also her dance.
However, she also knows how to pitch the artful against the blunt, the symbolically charged against the thing itself, to forceful effect.
For many years, he said, British authorities subjected members of the Irish Republican Army to forceful interrogations, but, in the end, the government concluded that "detainees aren't valuable".
The cardiovascular symptoms and signs of hyperthyroidism include an increase in heart rate (tachycardia), atrial fibrillation (rapid irregular heart rhythm), palpitations (pounding in the chest due to forceful contraction of the heart), shortness of breath, and exercise intolerance.
The students were asked to rate each picture on a series of seven-point scales covering ranges of good to bad, nice to mean, gentle to forceful, passive to aggressive, and friendly to unfriendly, among others.
"Theodora" contains a lot of intense but somber music, and ultimately it is not wedded to forceful onstage drama as cogently as in Peter Sellars's famous 1995 Glyndebourne production.
Mr. Tenet, an extroverted former Congressional staff member, was given to forceful language about the threat from Al Qaeda, which he said might well have had operations under way involving biological, radiological or even nuclear weapons.
