striking power

He subsequently leased the Lyceum, and afterwards the Adelphi, acting youthful and melodramatic parts with striking power.

The nation, measured by its swift leap into maturity, its striking power to keep going at the same swift pace, was about his age.

She seemed fascinated, as a woman might have been by the striking power of a rattlesnake.

A little later, a brigade of Kellermann's heavy cavalry came up from the rear and renewed Ney's striking power—but again too late.

Mink has the long, thin, twisting neck which reptiles need to give them striking power for their fangs.