  We consider the effect of an energy-dependent dipole form factor in the
high-energy behavior of the forward amplitude. The connection between the
semihard parton-level dynamics and the hadron-hadron scattering is established
by an eikonal QCD-based model. Our results for the proton-proton ($pp$) and
antiproton-proton ($\bar{p}p$) total cross sections,
$\sigma_{tot}^{pp,\bar{p}p}(s)$, obtained using the CTEQ6L1 parton distribution
function, are consistent with the recent data from the TOTEM experiment.
