Ms. Biret's recital, part of the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at the Mannes College of Music, demanded a formidable technique and considerable endurance, both of which she has.
Goddard described the world endurance championship as a "formidable series that is gaining strength".
Subrina has been a godsend -- capable, pleasant, with the endurance needed for this formidable task.
In addition to their formidable capacity for drink and their stoic endurance of hangovers, her heroines all suffer from "mourning sickness".
General Petraeus's six-hour endurance test did not look as formidable when whittled down to fit the network evening newscasts, however.
(Chinen) Jon Irabagon Trio (Friday) A saxophonist of formidable technique and frisky temperament, Jon Irabagon often favors heroic endurance in a trio setting; he'll be well matched in this one, with the bassist Yasushi Nakamura and the drummer Rudy Royston.
Her habitual anxiety and jovial hyperactivity – so different to the formidable power and placidity she has demonstrated in 40 years of extreme acts of endurance – were in overdrive.
Ms. Nottage has endowed the frail-looking Sophie, as well as the formidable Mama, with a strength that transforms this tale of ruin into a cleareyed celebration of endurance.
To perform the Variations is itself a feat of endurance, one that Levit, in his new recording, on Sony Classical, accomplishes with dancing rhythms, gracious lyrical continuity, and a steely, formidable technique.
