Sentence examples for formidable attributes from inspiring English sources

Rudd pays tribute to Julia GIllard, a woman of intelligence and strength, a person of formidable attributes.

Perhaps the reason people rarely talk about his formidable attributes as a singer is that he makes so little fuss about them.

Such is the "formidable catalogue" of personal attributes, according to scholar Barry Millington, of which Richard Wagner stands accused.

Trollope has a reputation for formidable organisation, a perfectionism she attributes to the "good-girl" expectations of the eldest child.

The durian is commonly known as the "King of the Fruits", a label that can be attributed to its formidable look and overpowering odour.

Think of Shrek and Donkey two formidable characters, each with plenty of positive attributes.

An honest Neighbour of mine, happening to be in Town some time since on a publick Day, inform'd me, that he saw four Gentlewomen with their Hoops half mounted in a Balcony, as they withdrew to the Wall, to the great Terror of the Militia, who (he thinks) might attribute their irregular Volleys to the formidable Appearance of the Ladies Petticoats.

Even at 21 he had, said Graeme Murty, who had attempted to mark him for Reading that aforementioned day,  "all the attributes", being not just skilful but physically formidable.

And so here we come to Mr. Gingrich, whose chief attribute all these years — aside from a formidable intellect and a ruthless need to anticipate public opinion — has been the will to endure.

Attributing a lack of evolutionary response to such mechanistic constraints is a formidable logistical challenge, requiring sophisticated experimental work to tease apart the genetic underpinnings of adaptive responses, or the lack thereof (Carroll et al. 2005).

He attributed this not to his skill at poker but to his gambling instincts, which are formidable in some circumstances (backgammon, mainly) and horrendous in others (sports betting, mainly).