Puissant

"the purple patches," and unattracted, perhaps demagnetized, by a personality once fascinating and always "puissant," to appreciate the actual worth and magnitude of the poem. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

Was there nothing that puissant emperor could not do? ❋ M_francis (2009)

Journeying forth to the big city in search of help, Flik mistakes the members of a broken-down flea circus for puissant warriors, brings them back home and presents them as the colony's saviors. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

But the Republican Party does believe in the United States remaining supine and dreaming that it is all-puissant and invincible. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was married to a puissant woman of endemic energy. ❋ Bill Yarrow (2011)

Hassop was at ease, relaxed, just a little beglamoured by the idea of intimacy with his puissant chief, just a little intoxicated by the knowledge that his film cannister contained Ben Reich's fate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She took a deep breath and held it, raised her head, and gave him a puissant look. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here and there might have been discerned a frown at these revelations concerning a most puissant noble of the English Crown, but the overriding reaction was an untrammeled delight in the scandal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As well as being a showcase for the fat knight, a contemporary lord of misrule, and a not-so-subtle piece of Tudor propaganda, it must also tell the story of the transformation of the Prince of Wales from prodigal son into the puissant monarch who will shortly fulfil every English ambition and declare waron France. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To the New Blood: [aka: puissant snots, kids, wood gatherers … .. fresh meat.] ❋ Unknown (2008)

| Reply | Permalink puissant 0 glissade 0 DavidBAnimal 0 Plowboy 0 ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thirty-eight years nearly to the day when a young John Kerry shocked the nation with his fiery anti-Vietnam war testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rick Reyes, a former US Marine Corporal, delivered an equally puissant testimony in which he expressed his disenchantment with the war in Afghanistan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

AJM ... wasn't it you who used the 'victorian term' respectable in the second to the last sentence puissant replied to? ❋ Unknown (2009)

First of all puissant, I will apologize for any implied personal attacks I may have made in the past. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Do you, puissant, by any chance work in the advertising industry? ❋ Unknown (2009)

| Reply | Permalink puissant is right, the link posted above answers your question directly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I agree with ya puissant but nonetheless beating them in the polls even when the pollsters use their own terms says a lot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

| Reply | Permalink puissant, I think that the Politico site information is wrong on the figures they put together and which you copied above in your post at 7: 06. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Comments (9) puissant wrote on August 23, 2007 5: 34 PM: ❋ Unknown (2009)

 And as one might expect, the second was even more puissant than the first, though not so puissant as the third as I should come to find in due time. ❋ Unknown (2009)