Word: potente
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Although the stated goal--to actually hold the site and stop construction--was not achieved, the action was universally seen as an enormous success. Almost overnight opposition to nuclear power became perhaps the most potent protest movement in the country, with at least 20 alliances, patterned after Clamshell, springing up across the nation...
...second half, though, was an entirely different story. Harvard combined a stingy defense with a potent attack to put the game safely out of reach...
Bereft of these comic scenes, the Leverett show was free to be a brief but potent spectacle of violent tragedy. Instead the performers seen to feel they have to make up for the comedy lost when the subplot was cut. In the process they dilute the effectiveness of the best melodramatic scenes...
...prime error is to reduce the play to some quirky personalities on a bare set; its true home is a realm-the great stage of Rome. Dunlop has given us a Rome sans populace, sans armies, and devoid of the pervasive presence of megalopolitan power-perhaps the most potent character in the drama. The Roman state is what stalks the minds and characters of the men who conspire to kill Caesar. It is never remotely felt here...
Pink and his defensive mates Mike Kennedy, Haywood Miller and Frank Prezioso were particularly impressive, as they complemented the brilliant offensive performances of Steve Martin and Mike Faught by suffocating the usually-potent Quaker attack...