Sentence examples for being redoubtable from inspiring English sources

It is possible to feel deprived of a vanished pub even if it was one you never made use of, just as a church can be reassuring to the irreligious – for being redoubtable, bracingly old, with doors more often open than not.

His reputation in the technology sector is redoubtable.

Valencia carried the game to the Basques, whose record on the road has been redoubtable this season.

Heather Phoenix is redoubtable in the role, her bosom puffing before her like a sail in full swell.

Mark van Bommel and Nigel De Jong are redoubtable midfield presences (I'm choosing my words advisedly, here), but neither player is renowned for routinely allowing creativity to triumph over pragmatism.

Though its presence in the gallery is redoubtable, it has a quiet weightlessness, the work seeming to float on the floor.

"Rhapsody" is redoubtable black ink on paper, but instead of using ink to delineate forms, he employs a variety of strokes to achieve a dense snaking composition.

The Irish were redoubtable duellists, but so lacking in decorum when potting each other that, in 1777, delegates from five counties assembled to hammer out the Irish Code Duello.

Man for man, Jamaica's talent should not have been enough to beat the USA, but their organization was redoubtable, and even under heavy pressure in the second half as the USA chased the equalizer, the Jamaicans held out with the type of defensive tenacity that had seen them win each of their last three games 1-0.

PJ Harvey's record-breaking contributions to indie rock are redoubtable, but rock's one-in one-out policy for women has made her an inescapable comparison for any rock woman standing alone with a six string and toe pressed to a distortion pedal.

So is the redoubtable editor.