Sentence examples for about as formidable from inspiring English sources

"It's about as formidable as a meatloaf," Mr. Trillin said.

Her Becky comes across as a lightweight schemer about as formidable as an aspiring trophy wife on a daytime soap.

As they haphazardly join forces on a missing persons case in disco-era LA, their macho puffery is about as formidable as Jessica Fletcher in an armoured vest, which is of course half the fun.

Branch workers around the country described to me a feeling during this period that they were being kept out on the shop floor as a hindrance, but no real impediment, to incident; on display like scarecrows, and about as formidable a deterrent.

There is no silver lining to Israel's slaughter in Gaza, but the reactions to it should at least serve as a wake-up call: when it comes to the struggle for peace and justice in Palestine, the American liberal elites who are about to assume power present as formidable an obstacle as the outgoing Bush administration and its neoconservative backers.

New bio-degradable materials such as paper pulp and starch have emerged as formidable alternatives, but little is known about how to design buffers from them.

To prove that Army red tape can be equally as formidable as that in the Navy, Mr. Kahn tells about being ordered to Fort Riley, Kansas, to make a report on the Cavalry.

"Thorn" is about as personal a project as you'll see from a major filmmaker: a documentary portrait of Mr. Gondry's formidable Aunt Suzette, a family linchpin and former schoolteacher, and of her troubled relationship with her son, Jean-Yves.

"It has morphed into something as formidable as ever".

Beatrice Kaufman was as formidable a figure as her husband.

Their defense is not as formidable or feared.