They are enormous 900 square feet on average and they've been endowed with formidable info-age technology, including plasma-screen TVs, T-1 high-speed Internet and DVD players with speakers in the loo and out on the balcony (you quickly come to love that).
Even when the material is questionable, Turner's formidable charisma and age-defying energy levels are hugely engaging.
She appeared with a formidable team of aging writers, including N. Scott Momaday (The Way to Rainy Mountain), Nancy Huddleston Packer (Jealous-Hearted Me), and poet Ken Fields (Classic Rough News).
Khin Than Htwe, a formidable former professor aged 58, describes how two children abandoned by their parents were sold to a tea shop by their neighbour.
Visionary and highly experimental, her legacy, despite her young age, is formidable.
As she received me, half lying on her couch with a blanket draped over her lap, I knew I was coming before someone who was quite formidable, no matter her age and condition.
It was the consensus of legal Edinburgh that as judge of the High Court he was one of the most formidable inquisitors of the age, and a very, very good lawyer (the two do not always go together!).
The book was at once recognised not only as "an exquisitely drawn portrait" but for its rarer trait of "complete intellectual honesty", which was to remain Hoggart's hallmark and helped him become one of the most watchful, formidable consciences of his age.
"Visionary and highly experimental, her legacy despite her young age, is formidable.
A formidable pairing, at the age of 49, Patrick has already declared that he wants to be the oldest winner of SCD, and from his early performances he may just stand a chance.
