Ford's juxtaposition of these two strong stories gives them a cumulative force, and there is more in them than I can do justice to here.

A great deal of cumulative force runs through your fingers, especially if you pound the keyboard.

But gradually a set of issues and themes emerges, allowing these separate pieces to build on one another, to gain a cumulative force.

Together they have a cumulative force.

Apt and unforgettable, these images form a progression that has the cumulative force of music.

Neither the filmmakers nor the characters address this directly; "Rosetta" is often watchful and mute in ways that take on great cumulative force.

But the cumulative rhetorical force was tremendous.

But the cumulative force of all the individual tags can produce a bottom-up, self-organized system for classifying mountains of digital material.

The cumulative force of the nested fields drives the ship on a spatial wave.

Ivens's editing gives the film a simple, cumulative force.