McGowan's unscripted and usually expletive-laden clips have now garnered him a formidable audience, with over 42,000 subscribers on the channel, and 40,000 Twitter followers.
On the evening of Feb. 25, 1861, at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, Du Chaillu lectured on his explorations to a formidable audience, including the brilliant anatomist Richard Owen, the Darwin ally Thomas Huxley, the polymath Francis Galton (who would later found eugenics) and William Gladstone.
Its impact was global, with formidable audiences and artist pools in cities such as Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, Cape Town, London, and Bristol, England (where the spin-off trip-hop originated).
Andrew Tyndall, a TV news analyst, said CNN depended for too long on Mr. King and his once-formidable audience.
The release of the Jonas Brothers 3-D concert movie will galvanise the formidable tween audience base, while the coronation of Slumdog Millionaire at the Oscars will motivate new crowds to get out and see Danny Boyle's phenomenon.
A conductor does not program this formidable Mass to wow audiences.
To bring this formidable talent to Boston audiences, the Museum of Fine Arts is showing a complete retrospective of Angelopoulos' films, eight in all, on Thursday and Friday nights.
His beard is turning silver now, but Mr. Kani is still the formidable actor who thrilled audiences when he starred in the plays of Athol Fugard, South Africa's most prominent playwright.
Still, having revitalized the Boston Symphony after Seiji Ozawa's nearly 30-year tenure and having challenged Boston players and audiences with formidable contemporary works and numerous premieres, Mr. Levine seems to be in an artistic quandary at the orchestra.
Whenever the flakiness of 'Point Break' threatens to become lulling, Ms. Bigelow wakes up her audience with a formidable jolt".
She's played with sinewy determination by Isabelle Huppert, an actress at her formidable best when making her audience sympathise with a morally conflicted character, and at the start of White Material, she hitches a ride on one of those overloaded African taxi vans by hanging on to the ladder at the back, the veins in her arms throbbing, her face set boldly against the onrushing wind.
