Another word for hard-hitting

Their chief leader, General Ramon Narvaez, had for his guiding principle that government must be conducted by the stick and by hard hitting.

An orator of a business-like, straightforward type, cool and hard-hitting, his spare figure, incisive features and single eye-glass soon made him a favourite subject for the caricaturist; and in later life his aggressive personality, and the peculiarly irritating effect it had on his opponents, made his actions and speeches the object of more controversy than was the lot of any other politician of his time.

Pakistan had expected to counter-attack with Yousuf resuming on 185 while hard-hitting batsman Shahid Afridi was yet to score.

He was a hard hitting right-hand batsman, who fielded at slip.

Blue Vinyl (USA 2001, Sun 9 March 8.30) is a hilarious yet hard-hitting documentary on the world of industrial poisoning.