Sentence examples for fearsome if from inspiring English sources
What would the West do if a Russian aircraft carrying anti-aircraft missiles took off for Belgrade, or if a Russian cargo ship headed for Yugoslavia's remaining Adriatic port?And Russia still has a fearsome if rusting nuclear arsenal.
The notion that audiences would find new music less fearsome if they heard composers informally explain their work is both sensible and time-honored: Meet the Composer has sponsored preconcert interviews for decades, and Carnegie Hall upped the ante a few years ago by signing on one composer, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, to interview her colleagues.
Meanwhile he will be a formidable if fearsome operator, at home and abroad.
This time the subject is Pierre Boulez, the once fearsome, now almost (if not quite) beloved godfather of Total Serialism.
As portrayed by the powerfully talented Brian Cox, Lecter was brisk and businesslike -- even the dimple in his chin was fearsome -- and spoke as if his curiosity were engaged by a lower order.
If Pixies were fearsome but fraught, the 2013-edition Breeders have a different byword: fun.
At times, he seemed more intent on rehabilitating their fearsome reputation altogether, making them, if not likable, then at least admirable.
Larry Deblinger Nyack, N.Y., Feb. 12, 2008 To the Editor: David Brooks correctly lists the fearsome choices facing either Democrat if he or she is elected.
KINGS 5, CANUCKS 3 If Los Angeles's fearsome power play keeps lighting up Roberto Luongo and Vancouver, the Kings' long-suffering fans will not have to wait eight years for their next playoff series.
A modest museum houses enough antique rifles to arm a small insurgency, as well as an exhibit of historic barbed wire that includes Champion Zig-Zag, a fearsome design that looks as if it could stop a runaway Conestoga wagon.
Now, he sees existence as a whole, as if from the somewhat fearsome contemplative distance of someone with one foot already outside it and in the next world.
