Sentence examples for a formidable appetite for from inspiring English sources

The Roosevelts' diet was simple, though on occasion the president had a formidable appetite for game or chicken.

A single-minded man with a formidable appetite for collecting other peoples' treasures was buying up Indian artifacts, literally by the boxcar, in shopping sprees throughout North America and South America.

Nowhere is that still formidable appetite for factory investment more apparent than along the shores of western Japan's Osaka Bay.

He appears to have lost none of his formidable appetite for the sport in which he excels, saying of the GB cycling team, "We just need to keep putting in the hours in training and make sure we're in the best shape possible for race day".

Mr Blair, even when suffering from a bout of Mr Brown's worst behaviour, would acknowledge that his ally and rival was a big man a large personality with a formidable intellect, a huge appetite for work and a high moral purpose.These days Mr Brown likes to talk about Britishness, which he sees as the fount of shared values that can bind society together.

To that role he brings formidable learning, a relentless appetite for sniffing out self-serving humbug and a quiet, but insistent radicalism.

The young Eva was a slight, though formidable, girl with an infectious appetite for pleasure.

"That makes him a formidable opponent for Labor".

America is a formidable machine for moviemaking, with all the fuel it needs, but the kinds of story that it now chooses to tell of itself, and the appetite for such nourishment — the taste for mass public shows, that is, rather than unhypnotic home entertainment, which you can snap out of when you need a beer — may be shrinking beyond recall.

That's a formidable obstacle for a critic.

However, Cook is also a formidable opponent for Bangladesh.