Sentence examples for fearsome for from inspiring English sources

In full flight she can be fearsome for junior members of staff.

A NASTY blow to a British footballer has made English divorce courts more fearsome for rich spouses (and better for their poorer partners).

It's partly that Donachie seems three times bigger than everyone else, a bullish figure, no less fearsome for his legal attire.

Listeners' changing perceptions shape performances as well: If these quartets once seemed fearsome for their dissonance and brash energy, they are now an accepted part of the musical landscape, and if the job of an ensemble in the 1940s was to make them comprehensible to audiences, now the task is more nuanced and complex.

And now for a less fearsome foe for Morrissey to train his ire upon: his pesky hairdresser, who's so popular he can't find the time to trim that beloved quiff.

And yet Republicans retained for a long time a fearsome reputation for political prowess.

Johannesburg, a turbulent city with a fearsome reputation for lawlessness, is fertile ground for a crime writer, and South African author MD Villiers makes the most of it in her first novel.

He drove home to this visitor that Burma's secession from the world may have created a museum for tourists, but it made a fearsome prison for the Burmese.

Rodriguez waited 131 minutes for his chance at Jonathan Papelbon, the fearsome closer for the Boston Red Sox.

This huge conceptual reorientation, plus the sheer mathematical beauty of the theory, ensured that general relativity acquired both a mystique and a fearsome reputation for impenetrability that made Einstein a byword for genius.

China still claims to be a communist society and has a fearsome reputation for censorship, so why was it happy for us to do this?