But it could work powerfully on the level of metaphor, the plane on which art museums and their contents communicate.

I was trying to work quickly and powerfully, but the strength of my projections surprised even me.

This convention works so powerfully precisely because, in life, it is not like that.

He watched as it crossed the river, wings working powerfully, the burning cinders falling around it.

Glenn was poisoned, by a poison that worked powerfully and swiftly, once it started to act.

He found the mash working powerfully; there was a rim of froth on the ground about the keg.

Her tail worked powerfully, so that she used her hands only for course corrections.

Quickly he stripped off all of his clothes, then grabbed Eric's powerfully working shoulder.

It's not a subtle reading but it works powerfully in this context.

Yet why a few specks of additive should work so powerfully remained a mystery.