"There is just a formidable work ethic in Lancaster County, the hearty farmers who saw the Amish and the Mennonites around here working so hard," Mr. Miller said.
But the ovation went on, and he obliged with a formidable work, Chopin's Scherzo in B flat minor, played with bracing energy and brilliance.
They needed a formidable work ethic to succeed, and that's what Smiles codified in Self-Help".
What her upbringing did instil was a formidable work ethic.
Fassbender does formidable work in the movie's last section, set in 1998, when he's playing the later-period Jobs, with the salt-and-pepper scruff and the angular physique, who has long been a public figure.
But most important, the disc will give brave listeners a chance to cozy up to "Threni," a notoriously formidable work hardly ever encountered in the concert hall (or, one need hardly add, on the radio).
Fortified by encapsulating the philosophy from the likes of Paulo Coelho, this awakened me to understand 'a force that wants you to realise your personal legend' and a catalyst for my everyday drive in the formidable work of Robin Sharma, teaching me to lead without a title, to not become a prisoner of my past but the architect of my future.
But Mr. Kirchner deftly uses the taped sounds to complement the strings in an organic, boldly episodic and formidable work.
In many respects it ascribes to the idea - prevalent in the 60s, now disputed - of Tchaikovsky's music as being primarily neurotic and frenzied, but even so, you are aware of a formidable intelligence at work in the slower-and-sexier-than-usual second movement, the dark andante and the moody jolts of the finale.
Indeed, it is his response to Rana's ordeal, more than her own trauma, that dominates the plot, and the one flaw in this formidable work is that its attention rests so instinctively on Emad.
