"Bomber County" is its own series of runways, one from which a variety of genres (memoir, war history, literary criticism) take off and sometimes daringly land, having delivered formidable emotional and intellectual payloads.
But the dancers in his company, a modern-dance troupe, deliver a formidable performance, and the final solo in the nude for Isabelle Arnaud, dancing on a square of Astroturf as the Chosen One, is a distillation of energy and more sensual than sensational.
Working together, primary care and public health can deliver a formidable one-two punch so people hear the same information in the clinic and the community.
In the pivotal role of Mother God Damn (a name, she explains, foisted on ignorant Chinese girls by foreign sailors who told them it means "I love you"), Jade Wu delivers a formidable performance.
Last March, when Charles Spencer unwisely described her performance in Madame de Sade as "sour and cross" and suggested that it had been delivered in "formidable old-boot mode", Dame Judi unwisely wrote him a letter explaining that he was "an absolute shit" and she was "sorry I didn't get a chance to kick you".
But can he deliver against the most formidable opponents in the game – such as Australia in England's opener in Cardiff a week on Saturday?
This blank and scary conclusion which, ultimately, offers its readers little in the way of consolation, is nevertheless powerful, resonant and thought-provoking, delivered by a formidable wordsmith at the very height of his powers.
But the pressure is only mounting: Paramount is betting that Mr. Schwartz and his lower-profile but formidable business partner, Stephanie Savage, can deliver John Hughes-style hits ("Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") for a new generation.
