forcible vs hard-hitting

forcible

adj
  • Having a powerful effect; forceful, telling, strong, convincing, effective. 

  • Able to be forced. 

  • Done by force, forced. 

hard-hitting

adj
  • Aggressively vigorous or forceful 

How often have the words forcible and hard-hitting occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )