Sentence examples for formidable appetite from inspiring English sources

The Roosevelts' diet was simple, though on occasion the president had a formidable appetite for game or chicken.

Nowhere is that still formidable appetite for factory investment more apparent than along the shores of western Japan's Osaka Bay.

Sánchez played like a man who was determined to leave his mark on the big occasion and Héctor Bellerín and Nacho Monreal showed a formidable appetite to supplement Arsenal's attacks.

A single-minded man with a formidable appetite for collecting other peoples' treasures was buying up Indian artifacts, literally by the boxcar, in shopping sprees throughout North America and South America.

He appears to have lost none of his formidable appetite for the sport in which he excels, saying of the GB cycling team, "We just need to keep putting in the hours in training and make sure we're in the best shape possible for race day".

In his essay on Susan Sontag, written after her death, he labels her a "cosmophage" — one who "eats the world" — and in his admiration for her one can hear his own formidable intellectual appetite: "Daily, Sontag's spirit exhorts me: Move on!

On the one hand, it is grimly realistic about the recalcitrance of the human condition - the perversity of human desire, the prevalence of idolatry and illusion, the scandal of suffering, the dull persistence of oppression and injustice, the scarcity of public virtue, the insolence of power, the fragility of goodness and the formidable power of appetite and self-interest.

To that role he brings formidable learning, a relentless appetite for sniffing out self-serving humbug and a quiet, but insistent radicalism.

His appetite is formidable, and he knowingly eats more than he should or must, to the steady concern and occasional consternation of his parents.

His temper was legendary, sending timid staffers diving under their desks; his appetite was formidable, with steak for lunch and an eager eye for sponge cakes at any point.

Mr Blair, even when suffering from a bout of Mr Brown's worst behaviour, would acknowledge that his ally and rival was a big man a large personality with a formidable intellect, a huge appetite for work and a high moral purpose.These days Mr Brown likes to talk about Britishness, which he sees as the fount of shared values that can bind society together.