Afterward a group of Franciscans led by Michael of Cesena, minister-general of the order, and William of Ockham became bitter and formidable critics of the papacy.
The theory has formidable critics and defenders.
To support his assertion that Amanpour is "the opposite of the perfect candidate," Shales cites two formidable critics: a Facebook group against Amanpour and a conservative media think tank's blog who he quotes as saying she has "the standard liberal outlook on the world".
Tomorrow would be the formidable critic's ninetieth birthday.
Even the Sunday Times's formidable critic, James Agate, conceded that Guinness's refusal to play the role in a traditional way had "a value of its own".
But the difficulty of Baldwin's idea is clear from how much trouble Harvey — a formidable critic, the author of the essential study "Movie Love in the Fifties" — has keeping up with it.
Before long, he was reviewing drama, poetry, operas, novels, and art exhibitions for the Chronicle and other magazines, and, by the end of the decade, he had become the most formidable critic of his day.
As a result, more attention was paid to John Campbell's biography of Wilson's opponent, Edward Heath, the Conservative prime minister whose enthusiasm for European cooperation had helped to make him a formidable critic of fellow Conservative Thatcher.
But, in one of those curious twists of fate, the formidable critic of George Osborne's deflationary mission finds himself also opposing a governor of the Bank of England in whose original appointment he had a hand.
Gerrit Zalm, a liberal who served as finance minister for most of the 13 years up to 2007, repeatedly banged the drum about this, fostering the impression of a profligate (and perhaps corrupt) EU largely paid for by worthy Dutch burghers.For a while Mr Zalm's party was led by an even more formidable critic of Brussels, Frits Bolkestein.
Living in a small home with a decidedly rural feel at Wymondham, Sebald wrote a series of books which made him a formidable critic of German writing, including studies of Sternheim, Doeblin, the German theatre, and two collections of essays on Austrian writing.
