At that distance, the rolled up windows couldn't stop the roar. The truck vibrated from the tremors in the earth as the wheels of the colossal mass hammered separations in the crossing. The awesome power of the mechanical beast was unmistakable. We found that we needed to look away more than once to alleviate a shiver in the spine. That is power.
Force is different.
The woodsman's chain saw and splitting maul represent force. In the book Crowds and Power , Elias Canetti points out that a cat uses force to seize a mouse, to hold it and eventually kill it. The game of cat and mouse is to let the prey have enough space to imagine it is free. Canetti goes on to say that many religious people, followers of Islam and Puritanism for example, yearn for God's force. They are not content to be enveloped in His power.