Sentence examples for a formidable skill from inspiring English sources

Put to serious pursuits, as it often was, this inclination was a formidable skill, and Mr. Rothberg shared its benefits with family and friends.

Gyllenhaal's performance offers a conspicuous display of formidable skill within the film's familiar range of conventional drama.

Welcome to quantum diplomacy, a new experimental field of political science that will require formidable skill and a large dose of that quality notoriously derided by Michael Gove – expertise.

Atwood's formidable skill as a wordsmith and storyteller makes Hag-Seed an engrossing tale, and a true update to "The Tempest," but it's too knotted up in its vengeful minutiae to stand as a distinctly worthwhile novel on its own merits.

He has formidable skill as a conventional sonneteer but also takes assured liberties.

Hadley is a supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence, someone who goes well beyond surfaces.

So Hooton Tennis Club perform on the same stage as twigs, Jack Garratt appears before Rae Morris, and the father-son act of Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté perform on the kora – the 21-stringed West African harp – with formidable skill and a profound artistry on the Eat Your Own Ears stage.

He handled calculations and symbolic manipulations with formidable skill, guided by a deep intuitive understanding of mathematical theories and their interconnections.

Alicia Witt is equally impressive as Abigail, implying an interior life through her silence, and playing Ravel and Chopin with formidable skill.

In a short concession speech outside parliament, in which he declined to say whether he would back Leadsom or May, Gove said he was pleased the next prime minister would be a woman, and a person with "formidable skills".

But the movie really belongs to Ms. Fonda and Ms. Lohan, actresses whose formidable skill is often underestimated and overshadowed by off-screen notoriety.