[
US
/ˈfɔɹsfəɫnəs/
]
NOUN
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physical energy or intensity
it was destroyed by the strength of the gale
he hit with all the force he could muster
a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man
How To Use forcefulness In A Sentence
- The thanatological philosophies of spirit that Schelling here wishes were dead are in fact very much alivehence the reiterated forcefulness of his censure. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
- We see these victims everywhere shorn of power -- weak, nerveless, backboneless, staminaless, gritless people, without forcefulness, mere nonentities because they have ceased working. Pushing to the Front
- There is a passion, there is a vigor, there is a forcefulness, which is more thrilling," he says of an all-male Glee Club. Yale Glee Club Hits a High Note
- He didn't have the kind of forcefulness I had expected from a frontrunner who would, as Steve just said, should have been better prepared for some of those questions. CNN Transcript May 3, 2007
- Vindication, according to Thomas Aquinas the translation of vindicatio as 'vengeance' is not particularly good, but it does a little better than 'vindication' at indicating the forcefulness the Latin word conveys, is an important virtue associated with justice. Vindication
- Her songs are tough and earthy, hating mere prettiness when fieriness or forcefulness are required.
- The fullness, forcefulness, beauty, and quality both of the singing and the instrumental music have been quite moving for me.
- He pioneered a style of French text-setting in which the accentuation of weak syllables made for unusual forcefulness and clarity.
- I know he wouldn't hurt me but his forcefulness and determination to win was getting annoying.
- The forcefulness of these policies is a measure of the degree to which the US government is the exclusive tool of American corporate boardrooms, oil company boardrooms most especially.