Yet if one gives credence to the accounts of dreams by Sigmund Freud and his patients — many of which are overstuffed scenarios that take pages to lay out, and include formidable chunks of dialogue — dreams today often seem to be quicker and choppier than they once were, more closely resembling a YouTube video than a novel.
A chocolate torte presented a formidable mélange of chocolate cake, chocolate chunks, ganache and hazelnuts.
A huge chunk of the game's formidable worldbuilding, meanwhile, was exiled to Bungie's website and the game's companion app, rendering it invisible to most players.
Despite his formidable physique, he could only break off chunks of concrete.
Starting at the turn of the century, chunk by chunk, Andy Marmaduke built, with his brother, one of the formidable ranches of the Panhandle.
But while the core story of "Gravity" is pure genre down to the workmanlike nature of chunks of its dialogue, it makes the most of that situation by having a formidable narrative drive, a plot smartly worked out to the smallest, most persuasive detail, and an intense, immersive score and sound design by composer Steven Price.
If the Rangers keep him from returning to Pittsburgh, they would take a chunk out of the lineup of a division rival, one that looks as if it will be formidable for years to come.
Of course, those that fear Amazon should take notice that Amazon has some formidable rivals – Apple, Facebook, and Google, which have their own growing eco-systems that are enveloping bigger and bigger chunks of commerce.
