puissant
Example Sentences
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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
Another advantage about East Indian titles such as rajah and maharajah would be that for potent or puissant lady magnates you could say "begum."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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