forcible

• On Breakness, status was based on a quality best described as the forcible imprinting of self upon the future Between Palafox and Fanchiel, the young man in the dark brown suit, neither empathy nor hostility evinced itself openly: indeed the emotion was so all-pervasive throughout the houses, dormitories, and hall of the Institute as to be taken for granted Fanchiel had been tinkering with a minute fragment of mechanism clamped in a vise. —  Languages of Pao The
• One of the tapes showed what a military spokesman described as the forcible gagging of a terrorism suspect, the newspaper said in the article, posted on its Web site on Wednesday. —  One Thousand Reasons
• There are two methods of stretching the muscle--forcible or gradual. —  Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
• It is easy in such advocacy to be plausible, forcible, affluent in words and apparent reasons; also to be bold, striking, astonishing. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863
• You could make a very good book of Pensées out of them--he had a clear, forcible, and original mind; but he did not dare to say what he thought; and you may remember that if he was ever sharply criticised, he felt it deeply, as a sort of imputation of dishonesty. —  Father Payne

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