What makes them different is the jewelry, which gives the dresses graphic punch without making them too showy.

Since I was appointed editor in 1989, the magazine has raised its profile by covering the latest trends in architecture with editorial candor and graphic punch.

The colors and stylized simplicity of this haori design give it a lively graphic punch.

His big collages aren't always successful, but at their best they've got something of what Matisse's cutouts have - an organizing graphic punch, based on sturdy architecture.

For sure this is true of a lithe young St. George the dragon slayer in a 15th-century painting that has the graphic punch of a movie poster.

"I think she has recognized that the book needs more graphic punch, and she is trying to breathe a certain energy into the graphics," he said.

Leroy's presentation was notable mainly for its graphic punch.

Since it springs from a comic book, "Perdition" could have had a pulpy graphic punch, but Mendes saw the material in larger, epic terms.

For one, he likes objects with perverse, graphic punch.

They have considerable graphic punch, but they leave the painter's future as a sculptor unclear.