Sentence examples for a formidable book from inspiring English sources

It is a formidable book, even a vexing one at times.

A formidable record.

A formidable new book.... Provides a galaxy of challenging thought.... Gunkel does a fine job of lucid and concise exposition.

David L. Ulin on reshelving his formidable book collection.

These and many other thought-provoking statistics may be found in Judith Flanders' formidable book on 19th-century leisure and consumption.

Recently, he has been known more for his Bach above all, for his epic traversal of the complete cantatas and for his formidable book "Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven".

Is all this enough to make "Annals of the Former World" a formidable and compelling book?

Before beginning, he drew up a formidable list of books, which he sent Gosling to track down.

"He is a formidable scholar and this book will undoubtedly make waves and cause us to think again about the text – or texts – of Shakespeare's greatest play," he said.

While the genre of the historical novel is inevitably freighted with what Wood calls "fake heirlooms" — overblown set scenes, staginess, stilted dialogue — Mitchell overcomes these obstacles, involving the reader in his invented world with a "kind of warmth, a charming earnestness" that renders his book a "formidable marvel".

Schilling’s 216 career wins and three World Series rings helped him assemble a formidable roster, including comic book artist Todd McFarlane (creator of demonic antihero Spawn) and best-selling fantasy writer R.A. Salvatore.