Coming at a time when AD research needed direction, these ideas quickly dominated the field, and still have formidable momentum, despite increasing criticism and repeated trial failure.
Cleveland was a formidable policymaker and drew a corresponding criticism.
Hattersley offers a glimpse of the man behind the formidable records and figures, revealing Hutton's vulnerability to criticism and a humility often mistaken for aloofness.
Far from shielding her from criticism, Ms. Pellerin's compelling personal story and the formidable résumé she has assembled before age 40 sometimes seem to draw special scrutiny.
"Bomber County" is its own series of runways, one from which a variety of genres (memoir, war history, literary criticism) take off and sometimes daringly land, having delivered formidable emotional and intellectual payloads.
But while many of his rivals consider Dr. Dean an increasingly formidable figure in the field, he was the subject of far less criticism than many Democrats -- including he himself -- had expected going into tonight's event.
The whole world wants you to become homogenous, and only an incredibly focused and formidable founder is going to be able to rebuff and harness that criticism while building something different – and fundamentally interesting.
His criticism shows a nearly unequaled grasp of film history and technique, and formidable intellectual range, but he rarely seems to be showing off.
So on Monday, Mr. Romney's campaign began unloading criticism on Mr. Santorum, who had largely escaped being the target of Mr. Romney's formidable campaign machine.
It may also be that he was finally tired of the barrage of insults and criticism — as you can imagine, none of this (plus the fact that Inman has a formidable online presence) made him very popular.
