Despite his formidable record at communicating emotion, Taylor chooses his words with an almost professorial deliberateness, inflected by quick backward looks in the rearview mirror of self-consciousness — his style is equal parts self-mocking, cosmic, and precise.
In 1935, the distinguished war correspondent and radio broadcaster Raymond Gram Swing observed, "People who are not capable of disliking the lower middle class in toto, since it is a formidable tax on their emotions, can detest Hearst instead".
Burns, the great oracle of Scottish emotion, is a formidable rhetorical resource in a nationalist politician's locker.
The Cuban trumpeter sounds most impressive when he switches to fluegelhorn (on Freddie Hubbard's "Little Sunflower"), plays muted horn (on the attractive "Vida Real") or manages to combine emotion with his formidable technique (on his own well-crafted tribute "To Diz With Love").
But Felicity Palmer touched tragic depths as Clytemnestra, and Angela Denoke was formidable in her depiction of the seething emotions behind Chrysothemis's cool facade.
Wittgenstein's critical appreciation of Tolstoy's thinking, however, not only recovers its viability but also constructs a formidable position within contemporary debates concerning theories of emotion, ethics, and aesthetic expression.
His voice often quavering with emotion, Mr. Bouton, 60, spoke of his "formidable anger" upon learning of Mr. Kerviel's "monstrous" bets, which exposed the bank to €50 billion worth of risk, more than the bank's market value.
He controlled his employees, his family and his emotions with aplomb, and never lost his formidable cool.
Then emotion flooded Baker, a 6-foot-11 center-forward, showing him as vulnerable, a once-formidable post presence who wants to prove that he can still beat an opponent that does not wear a uniform: alcoholism.
Girls Aloud are still a formidable pop engine – 10 legs and a beat – with a natural sense of economy, which extends to their emotions on stage.
Laurence Scott has set himself the formidable task of registering the impact of the new digital technologies on our cognition, our perception and our emotions; in short, our phenomenology in its broadest sense.
