He's a bear of a guy, a big, formidable person, and when it came time for him to talk, he gave the most eloquent, restrained argument against the death penalty".
If someone asked you to imagine a cannabis edible, you might think of a big, formidable brownie filled with god knows how much THC.
Although it may sound appealing to fill up your topic sentence with big, formidable vocabulary words, if your topic sentence isn't clear your effort will simply sound forced and confused.
"To all of us, my father suddenly became bigger, more formidable.
But all that demand still didn't stack up against bigger issues: formidable and buzzy competitors; and how much the app was actually used — which (even with the growth) is not enough to drive the business model Scribd had wanted to attach to it: advertising plus all-you-can-read subscriptions — the "Netflix of reading" as Jason K. wrote at the time of launch.
It was "not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little... frail," Noonan wrote.
Whenever they played, Berdych always seemed to give Federer trouble, with his big serve and formidable groundstrokes.
Now, almost as a herd, these resting big beasts, the formidable and the chimerical, seem to be moving back to the front-line of politics.
A graduate always retains scraps of Boris's eclectic classes -- a stunning phrase of Pushkin, perhaps, or certainly a couplet from the tiresome nursery rhymes that students must daily sing as Boris stands there like a leering, formidable Big Bird.
It's tense, credible and intelligent, even if pitting four Somali fishermen against Hanks, a big ship and formidable back-up is a pretty unfair contest – that very imbalance is part of the point.
As with Liège, these took the form of a ring of forts, in this case nine (Maizeret, Andoy and Dave on the right bank of the Meuse; Malonne, Saint-Héribert, Suarlée, Emines, Cognelée and Marchovelette on the left), and as with Liège they were unable to withstand Germany's formidable "Big Bertha" howitzers.
