Minor nitpick: The reason this struck me so forcibly [...] While "forcibly" isn't wrong here, if you mean "with force" (sin. poignantly) rather than "by force

Minor nitpick: The reason this struck me so forcibly [...] While "forcibly" isn't wrong here, if you mean "with force" (sin. poignantly) rather than "by force" (sin. inevitably) then "forcefully" is less ambiguous: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forcibly http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forcibly http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forcefully http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forcefully