But this book's unvarnished quality is the source of its wrecking cumulative power.

The specifics may be far-fetched, but the scenes included here take on a cumulative power.

He was such a great documenter of facts and his books have a cumulative power.

After a while, it's hard to deny that these columns have a certain cumulative power.

The numbers, in their cumulative power and duration, are starting to change the state's vision of what it could be and how to get there.

There's neither a cumulative power to these scenes nor a narrative motor that might pull the reader along.

Though there is a sameness and repetition to these works, their cumulative power can't be denied.

But its itsy-bitsy scenes were not joined in a way that provided them with cumulative power.

I have heard this piece many times but never projected with such cumulative power.

This impression gives the show a cumulative emotional power: it starts out strong and gets stronger.