33 Metaphors for powerful

Oh Lord, all powerful is thy right hand!" Gustave's career seemed to open readily and smoothly.

So powerful is genius, when it is invested with the glitter of affluence.

" it seemedso powerful was the adjurationas if the audience must see the sepulchre open on the spot which the singer and actor indicated by his gesture and his gaze.

The most powerful of these was Ayar Cachi.

But those laws which are gradually enacted for the interests of the whole body of the people,for the rich and poor, the powerful and feeble alike,have generally been the result of great and diverse experiences, running through centuries, the work of wise men under constitutional forms of government.

This, indeed, is rare; and powerful must be the pictured Truth, that, as soon as embodied, shall thus displace its own original.

The most powerful of the fountains is, however, a grand jet, characteristically named the Geant, or giant, for the incredible force with which it springs from its basin, and rises 125 feet high, being more than the elevation of Napoleon's triumphal column, in the Place Vendôme, at Paris.

But those laws which are gradually enacted for the interests of the whole body of the people,for the rich and poor, the powerful and feeble alike,have generally been the result of great and diverse experiences, running through centuries, the work of wise men under constitutional forms of government.

The most powerful of these invaders were the Goths (271-375), who, coming from the shores of the Baltic, had shortly before settled north of the Black Sea.

The most powerful of these nations were the Philistines.

"In politics," he says, "the most powerful of all causes is the timidity, the listlessness, and the superficiality of the generality of minds" (p. 73).

And since irony is more powerful than abuse, let us set down here, without a word of comment, a few German utterances: The Kaiser: "We are the salt of the earth.

Protected from hostile violence and invasion by a moral defence, more powerful than armies and navies, we might indeed beat our swords into ploughshares and our spears into pruning hooks.

The priests in all countries sought to gain power and influence, and made themselves an exclusive caste, more or less powerful as circumstances favored their usurpations.

"There are a hundred-thousand crowns to be gained," he shouted; but rage was more powerful than cupidity, and one of them shattered his skull with a pistol-shot.

Is He not more powerful than devils?

But there are times when the native is shrewd enough to realise that pomp and circumstance do not always indicate strength, and that dignity is more powerful than display.

But the characteristics that would have weakened the implied theorem, had such been the main object, are the very things that make the novel more powerful as drama of a grandiose, spiritual kind.

The Greco-Roman Paganism was, at this time, far more powerful than Druidism in Gaul, and yet more lukewarm and destitute of all religious vitality.

"According to my calculations," I said slowly, "it ought to prove at least twenty times as powerful as gun-cotton.

A principle much more controlling was found in the love of order and obedience to the laws, which, with mere individual exceptions, everywhere possesses the American mind, and controls with an influence far more powerful than hosts of armed men.

The curtain rose to a low air on the same wind-instrument; and even Ludlow felt an emotion more powerful than interest, as he gazed on the object that was revealed to view.

But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of many cruel and malignant spirits only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent deity.

Matter, then, by its own strength, cannot produce in itself so much as motion: the motion it has must also be from eternity, or else be produced, and added to matter by some other being more powerful than matter; matter, as is evident, having not power to produce motion in itself.

"With the sole command of an explosive as powerful as mine, Germany would be in a position to smash England in about six weeks.

33 Metaphors for  powerful