Noam Chomsky

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

American Activist

Julia Davis

If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of things I'd never say because I'm not a very forceful person.

English Comedian

Rachel Cusk

I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form.

Canadian Novelist

Salvatore Quasimodo

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

Italian Author

Ishita Dutta

My sister has been a great source of support, she always tells me to listen to my heart and not do anything forcefully. That's a great advice.

Indian Actress

Ron Suskind

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

American Journalist

Gavin Newsom

We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.

American Politician

Karen Hughes

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

T. J. Miller

I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

American Actor

Cornelia Parker

I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character.

English Artist

Used when someone speaks with strong confidence to convince others.

Persuasive Speech

Indicates firmness in opinion, not hostility or violence.

Not Aggressive

Often associated with individuals who have a strong, charismatic aura.

Captivating Presence

Refers to the application of physical strength or compulsion.

Physical Coercion

Suggests firm actions but does not always mean use of violence.

Assertive Not Violent

Indicative of actions that are executed with vigorous energy.

High Energy

 you know she was really politically active I guess when she was younger and I think the way she's going about sending this message is in a very graceful way again as I said about not being forceful and and she has such a gift and I was just happy to be a part of you know something she was involved in she's a great director with with

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 in the trenches of the criminal legal system as public defenders, fighting for each and every client the best we could, defending people's humanity and their dignity and fighting for their freedom. And no matter how good we were as lawyers, and I like to think we were really good, and how forceful we fought on behalf of a client,

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 that it's given us nothing less than an ontological awakening a forceful reckoning with what is allowing us to contemplate space and time on a scale just shy of the infinite and then he talks about the Deep Field photograph and he says gazing upon the deep field is like mainlining the whole of time

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 then you'll get the opportunity to write something else. If you really want to do it, you have to do it." I said, "I don't want to write about my research. I do it all day long, I want to write something a bit more free, less constrained." And this person was very forceful and said,

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 and for spinning in the air. And while the large got larger and the small got smaller, the weird got weirder. The average length of the forearm of a water polo player in relation to their total arm got longer, all the better for a forceful throwing whip. And as the large got larger,

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 First, and most commonly, as coal burns, the exhaust gas can be mixed with a compound called monoethanolamine. Like a forceful power-stripping magnet, this compound bonds to the CO2, yanking it out of the gas stream so it can be stored separately underground.

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 detailing all the sexually aggressive things he could do to me because I didn't pay attention to him. At 19, I helped a friend whose parents had forcefully married her to an older man escape an abusive marriage.

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 like this one, and where you come from, Europe and so forth, who have influence and who have freedom to speak and to act, need to take the responsibility on yourselves to be more forceful in demanding

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 misses them completely actually pretty good but what happened is we had a tether there's a little more forcefully respecting from the shot that should be open out to right here or I'm standing

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 Water enters that tube through small openings around the squid’s head. Then, muscles clamp these openings shut, and the squid forcefully pumps the water through the base of their body.

Forceful

Showing strong conviction or determination.

Often appears as...

Using physical strength or energy.

Often appears as...

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Not Aggressive

Captivating Presence

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