puissant
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Kai A. Ealy offers a puissant portrayal of Oedipus’ traitorous son Polynecies and Jason Huysman, donning a white suit and cruelly manipulative demeanor, makes a vivid impression as Creon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
The play, he writes, is “smart, compact and stirring” and “seems destined to have a life as a puissant postscript to Ibsen’s masterwork.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2017
The Royal Nappy , on the other hand, is focused on the business end of the puissant infant, as you might expect from the chap who brought you The Queen's Knickers and Cinderella's Bum.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2013
When this sculpture filtered into Rome, puissant Roman sculptors were dissatisfied with merely copying the Greeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
His black sorcerer was more puissant than all of Euron’s three, even if you threw them in a pot and boiled them down to one.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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