powerful, strong, forceful / reassuring, encouraging

a brush stroke, pen stroke / the power of one’s writing, calligraphy, painting etc.

letter, character / handwriting, penmanship

to feel / to sense / to experience

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

a section of a village

against one's will

hard, tough, stiff / stubborn