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It was a formidable performance by Mark McCall's side, and a fine response having lost in the Premiership for the first time this season to Northampton a week ago.

Mirren gives a formidable performance, celebrating Alma's intelligence and thorny dignity.

Queen Marguerite — a role sung by Joan Sutherland on a landmark 1969 recording, conducted by Richard Bonynge — was sung here by Erin Morley, a coloratura soprano who combined earthy sound and agile technique in a formidable performance.

In the pivotal role of Mother God Damn (a name, she explains, foisted on ignorant Chinese girls by foreign sailors who told them it means "I love you"), Jade Wu delivers a formidable performance.

The Porsche Cayenne sport-utility vehicle, for example, is not only a formidable performance machine, but also a runaway success.

LL Cool J, the show's robustly preacherly host, made his monologue a prayer, followed by a formidable Grammy performance clip of Ms. Houston.

Above all Matthew Rose glowed with wisdom and generosity as King Marke – a formidable, heartwarming performance.

And Daveda Karanas, a 23-year-old mezzo-soprano from Louisiana, offered formidable performances of arias by Meyerbeer and Purcell (a gripping "When I Am Laid in Earth" from "Dido and Aeneas").

Mr. Andsnes's performances of a formidable new piece by Thomas Larcher and Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," among other works, were accompanied by videos created by Robin Rhode.

A formidable woman by the name of Miss Cleveland was always there.

These are formidable performances, no doubt.