Word: potente
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...leather around my neck. It felt cold and slightly sticky, but I did not jerk from it. I felt out of my body.” Given the strident title of Blair’s memoir, it’s hard not to view this scene as a potent self-lynching. Indeed, while the veracity of Blair’s account is necessarily dubious, he is still a talented writer: his memoir often succeeds even as fiction...
...routine and previous writing. Be it a spoof of MTV Cribs or a lede to what may very well be an AP news release, every line of text challenges the reader’s dexterity of deliberation. Thurston’s humor, though often hit or miss, is just potent enough to open the mind to the new dialogues and perspectives. Ultimately, the book treats this country’s shambled state of affairs as a tragic irony...
...death. Here, the son of God is a wholly human figure, and Gibson constantly reminds his audience of this with an unceasing depiction of shredded flesh and spattered blood. The effect is alternately piercing and numbing. Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. The telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise Blood) find most of their narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. Though violence is the film’s major theme, what resonates from...
...Danis rates near the top of the ECAC in every major goaltending category, Brown has the second best team defense in the ECAC, allowing less than two goals per game, and also the league’s best penalty kill unit. But to that defense Brown has added a potent power play, a unit that is tops in the ECAC and fourth in all the nation...
...streets that surrounded my high school on East 84th and I never had a clue. I drew no distinctions between limousine liberals and their conservative counterparts; nothing affected my perception that my adopted neighborhood was dominated by a homogeneous group. But stirring just below the surface was an equally potent force, integrated so thoroughly into upper-crust culture that any attempts to extricate it would surely destroy the existing social order...