powerfulness

Example Sentences

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“There is a powerfulness to the message that these very charismatic species are extremely threatened, and that the threats they represent are incumbent on all species in freshwater systems.”

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2020

That said, Ms. Roberts’s screed really was a rant about the powerlessness of her generation and the powerfulness, for good or ill, of the boomers.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2019

“I enjoyed the feeling of powerfulness, the ability I had to attract people,” he said.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2010

A sort of shambling powerfulness formed the main suggestion of face and figure, softened strangely by the mysterious expression of the eyes, and by the singular delicacy of the skin.

From Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)

I know nothing like it either in strength of colouring or powerfulness of effect.

From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles