puissance

How To Use puissance In A Sentence

• The goddesse of warre, called Bellona, had these thre handmaids ever attendynge on her: BLOOD, FIRE, and FAMINE, which thre damosels be of that force and strength that every one of them alone is able and sufficient to torment and afflict a proud prince; and they all joyned together are of puissance to destroy the most populous country and most richest region of the world. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
• I knew, impotent as I was, that I _could_ play it -- I could feel the sense of power tingling through my own impuissance. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography
• Well, what Spenser did with practically every Western myth, epic, and writer before him makes Faulkner look like a pre-schooler using slight of hand to hide a coin), his passion, his facility with language (that is, if you ignore the occasional "puissance"), his psychological insight. Telecommuter Talk
• All three sections begin powerfully and carry that puissance - and often it's not a force that we nor the narrator can control - throughout the section.
• Une idée fausse, mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance dans le monde qu'une idée vraie mais complexe. Public Speaking
• the puissance of the labor vote
• the puissance of the labor vote.
• Je n'oublierai jamais l'expression divine de ses traits; c'était l'air serein de la puissance et du génie, et suivant moi, Lord Byron n'avait, en ce moment, aucune affectation à se reprocher. "] ***** Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
• A combination of apparently unlimited electoral puissance and an underlying lack of both intellectual self-confidence and political principle has destabilised him.
• Une idée fausse, mais claire et précise, aura toujours plus de puissance dans le monde qu'une idée vraie mais complexe. Paris