What is "forceful"

Usage examples of "forceful".

Once, foolhardily braving these spikes, I tried to climb up to Jomo, but he placed the sole of his foot on my head and levered me to earth with a single forceful thrust.

After years of being the asexual, forceful Guli Sarahi, it was deeply rewarding to feel like a woman, and to know that she could still attract a man.

Nevertheless, he was a man of forceful ability and personal magnetism, possessed standing in Lapan as a soldier and leader and was popular and influential among his own people.

His devotees and disciples some vaguely cognisant of his intentions, others minutely instructed awaited some more or less forceful demonstration of Reparationist potency.

My mother is a very forceful and demanding personality, and who knows what she might do to set Q off.

Duffy easily ducked the wide swing and, blocking the dagger-thrust with the quillons of his rapier, stepped aside and gave the young man a forceful boot in his satin-clothed backside that lifted him from the pavement and pitched him with an echoing splash into the canal.

Nothing like being pursued by two tough, dangerous and forceful males to relax a girl, she thought, and smiled at Jake, enjoying his reaction, and watching Gareth Swales bridle and move in to intervene.

Suddenly he was the Chief Druid, a fount of knowledge, a great singer, the connection between Gaul and its Gods the Tuatha, the head of a huge confraternity more forceful than any other body of priests in the world.

Le chevalier perforce broke off as his mount, stung by a forceful dig in the flank by the dull point of the metal chape of Timoteo's sword sheath, reared and essayed to bolt.

The forceful entry of publishing houses and content aggregators is changing this dismal landscape, though.

But, once Aramina confronted Lessa, the vivid eyes and the forceful personality made her forget about such a trivial detail as height.

He was as steadfast as Belisarius was forceful and as such was an ideal subordinate and Captain.

His cajoling suggestions had long since deteriorated to forceful demands by the time they left the courthouse for the drive back to her house.

He had known the Caxtonian was there—Caxtonians were hard to miss, what with their incredible body odor and forceful opinions—but this one had been silent until now.

She picked up the paddle again quickly enough, pressed me down again on her lap, and commenced the loud and forceful spanking.