We feel the force of his anger as his formidable dancing fractures into shards of rhythm and shape, or when he assaults a broken piano, clawing and stamping at its strings.
Anger makes people more formidable in part because it seems so out of control.
But, as well as the formidable energy, Henry gives us the buried anger of a man who knows he was sold short in a white-dominated world.
He spent his two years in Newgate prison editing his newspaper - and stoking up the anger that would make him a formidable conservative radical, or reactionary revolutionary.
Anger and guilt are two incredibly formidable opponents to happiness.
Ambrose, seen by Grant for most of the novel as an uneducated and feckless true believer, is here a formidable blunderbuss from the start, played with a bullying anger by John Henry Redwood.
She is as graceful as she is brutal, as funny as she is quick to anger; a hyper sexualised avatar whose screen presence is more formidable than any muscular space marine or identikit solider.
A brilliant, sometimes abrasive infighter, he used a formidable arsenal of facts, bluffs, whispers, implied threats and, when necessary, pyrotechnic fits of anger to press his positions.
On Radio 4's Today, Paul McKeever, chairman of the Police Federation, the rank and file's formidable trade union, has just been complaining – in level-headed terms, too – about the anger and demoralisation of his members after unfair leaks and cuts.
I felt something happen inside - intellectual anger about beauty tyranny changed into physical rejection of it, a less sophisticated but more formidable force - and I understood the difference between them.
