Sentence examples for a functional but formidable from inspiring English sources

Its aesthetic coherence, a functional but formidable fragility, characterised the whole genteel mood of the season, and both audience and auteur shed tears during a heartfelt standing ovation.

Idina Menzel has a spare but formidable track record.

The design of a non-viral gene delivery vehicle capable of delivering and releasing a functional nucleic acid cargo intracellularly remains a formidable challenge.

Perhaps a mining name, functional but with its own poetry.

But there's a hurdle dead ahead: not high, but formidable.

Even when linked loci have been identified [ 6], there remains the formidable task of finding a functional variant within a locus that perhaps covers a substantial fraction of a chromosome and contains hundreds of genes.

"But it's a functional set".

The existence of a silent French majority, slow to act but formidable when aroused?

But the theme has a functional role as well.

But that's a joke, not a functional equivalent.

But formidable obstacles remain.