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puissant

[pyoo-uh-suhnt, pyoo-is-uhnt, pwis-uhnt] / ˈpyu ə sənt, pyuˈɪs ənt, ˈpwɪs ənt /


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But dull lighting muddies the Jean-Marc Puissant costumes and mutes the crackling atmospherics that were once such a feature of the piece and somehow, next to Chroma, it all looks a bit past tense.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2010

He and the set designer Jean-Marc Puissant at least succeed in giving the opera a disturbing new look.

From New York Times • May 4, 2010

In the dingy gloom of David McVicar's new staging of Verdi's Aida, designed by Jean-Marc Puissant, the same proved the case.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2010

"Puissant Rajah" Sirs: Being in the habit of reading every word in every issue of your magazine, I begin to shrink from again encountering "potent."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Most Puissant strikes seven, and says, "Venerable Knights Princes, the Council is closed."

From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by Morgan, William




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