The first woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Actress spoke out today about the Oscar diversity controversy. Halle Berry, who won her statuette in 2002 for playing the widow of an executed inmate in Monsterâs Ball, spoke out at the 2016 Makers Conference, a leadership confab near LA.
overpower. 1  to overcome, master, or subdue by superior force: to overpower a maniac. 2  to overcome or overwhelm in feeling; affect or impress excessively: overpowered with confusion and desire. 3  to gain mastery over the bodily powers or mental faculties of: a strong drink that quickly overpowered him.
Something forceful is strong and firm. A politician's forceful speech is self-assured and energetic, and it makes the audience sit up and take notice. One meaning of forceful is all about physical strength: The forceful throw carried the football past the goalposts.. Another way to be forceful is to be emphatic or vehement: The child's forceful refusal to go to bed could not be ignored by the sleepy babysitter..