He had a formidable work ethic, an innate, unerring perception of right and wrong and was always willing to help someone in need.
She ended with Schubert's Sonata in A minor (D. 845), a formidable work in four movements with bursts of spiraling passagework and finger-twisting counterpoint.
Mr. Wosner ends the recording with Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, a formidable work requiring virtuosic technique, but also delightful, inventive music that at once celebrates and pokes fun at ornate Baroque styles.
What her upbringing did instil was a formidable work ethic.
This year, the 100th anniversary of Britten's birth, was a fitting time for Mr. Tritle to take on such a formidable work.
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.
I ask because I happen to be reading Claire Tomalin's splendid new 200th anniversary biography of the great Victorian writer (all her biographies are formidable works of popular scholarship).
So it founders both as fiction and as reportage, as the reader can test, by comparing this brassy yeller with quieter but far better novels that have drawn on intelligent research (like "Netherland" and "Lush Life," both set in New York), or with formidable works of courageous reportage (like "Maximum City" and "Behind the Beautiful Forevers," both about life in Mumbai).
"Since 5Pointz was a prominent tourist attraction the public would undoubtedly have thronged to say its goodbyes during those ten months and gaze at the formidable works of aerosol art for the last time," Block said.
This was the European premiere of 12 Years A Slave, a work of formidable compassion and insight, hotly tipped to win several Oscars next March, and already acclaimed in the US as cinema's most unflinching depiction of slavery.
