The phrase "a man of formidable" is not complete and therefore not fully correct in written English.
It can be used when describing a man who possesses formidable qualities, but it requires additional context or a noun to complete the thought.
Example: "He is a man of formidable strength and determination."
Alternatives: "a man of great power" or "a man of impressive stature."
Azzad was a man of formidable energy.
The last four aren't operetic, but thy indicate that Signor Massa is a man of formidable culture.
He was a man of formidable and unconventional sexual appetites, inclined toward heterosexual pedophilia and sado-masochism.
Stewart has also become convinced, Jacobs reports with some pride, "that I was a man of formidable metabolism who could spend all night drinking and get up fully rested after only one or two hours' sleep".
It is interesting, certainly, that the great Australia captain Allan Border, a man of formidable pragmatism who in the eighties led his nation out of an earlier malaise, believes that a corner has been turned.
Borneman was a man of formidable intelligence who, like many a postmodern writer before and after him, loved the narrative energies of crime fiction while wanting to remain aloof from its conventions and simplicities.
What few realise is that the circus is the result of a bizarre competition between two rival magicians, Prospero the Enchanter (also known as Hector Bowen) and Mr A H, a man of such formidable mystery that no one can quite remember his name.
They got as far as the truncheons and bullets of a few "good ol' boys" of Neshoba County, Mississippi and were beaten and shot to death along with James Cheney, a young black man of formidable courage who died with them.
Played by Daniel Day-Lewis, who with "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Gangs of New York" clearly has a gift for portraying American archetypes, Plainview is a man of single-minded focus, formidable physical fortitude and roiling ambition.
Educated at Cambridge and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and currently university professor and head of the Remarque Institute of European Studies at New York University, Judt is by conviction a man of the left, though a formidable independence of mind seems to have rendered him impervious to orthodoxy.
He was a man of genuine personal mod esty, a formidable political opponents quintessentially ruth less, but a very private person, simple in his wants, remarkably warm with family and close associates, a fanatical foe of formality and ceremony.
