As long as he could remember, the female sex had been sending out combative, formidable scouts in his direction, mothers and grandmothers and teachers, and Barbara and Linda stealing his cap on the way to school, and fellow classroom goody-goodies like Mamie, and here the surface of femininity, that towering mystery in whose presence his life must be lived, yielded to a slight pressure.
However, even if the Bush team moves in this direction, the formidable obstacle of the U.S. Congress would remain.
When I asked several presenters what they were doing to change the direction of their formidable institutions, the reply came, "Oh I can't do anything radical".
Thus, finding the ideal target and modulating it pharmacologically in just the right direction is a formidable challenge.
The report outlines strategies for sharply accelerating overall progress in this direction, noting that formidable barriers exist to reaching the poorest, most excluded families and that overcoming these will require new approaches.
But Mr. Hanson's formidable portrait and Alex Roe's loving direction give this revival emotional and political relevance, particularly in the era of the 99 percenters.
At the same time she comes across as a confident fifteen-year-old who has a clear sense of direction in life and formidable understanding of the issues that are being raised today.
I went away feeling uncertain about Dudamel's current direction, though his musicianship remains formidable.
The production, which stars Amy Brenneman as the outwardly formidable, inwardly shaky Catherine, reassembles under Peter DuBois' direction the top-notch cast of the play's off-Broadway premiere at Playwrights Horizons.
Silicon Valley's formidable resources are starting to turn in the direction of science, having been focused for the past 2-3 years on areas like optimizing strawberry credit flows on FarmVille.
