Sentence examples for formidable eye from inspiring English sources

This is partly because he observes people so closely – like a brilliant caricaturist, he has a formidable eye for foibles, idiosyncracies and character.

Miss Helen Gardner, the Reader of Renaissance English Literature at the University of Oxford — a lady as brown and as trim as a wren — hopped into the witness box as though onto a twig and cocked a bright and formidable eye at Mr. Griffith-Jones, who treated her with caution.

This is formidable eye candy for the I-love-science crowd, sure to spark a sense of impressed..

And yet if Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi and the outgoing chairman of the Republican Governors Association, wasn't the party's biggest winner this election year, then he certainly emerged as one of the most formidable leaders eyeing the presidency in 2012.

Ken Hawley, who has died aged 87, was one of Sheffield's foremost industrial historians, a former tool salesman whose inquiring mind, formidable drive and eye for an opportunity led him to assemble a collection of international importance.

He had a formidable memory and eye for detail, which allowed him to dominate his staff officers, especially those in charge of specialist areas such as artillery, transport and communications.

But Mr. Daley offers a formidable list of eye-opening pointers, too: * Gesture with one hand.

Federer and Nadal both use clothes to amplify their personalities, playing up to their own legends and making themselves formidable in the eyes of opponents before they even pick up a tennis ball.

Joan's embonpoint is so formidable it could have your eye out – and the Hill eyes stare down at the Hill chest and command the Hill fingers to Google "conical bras – Madonna – Girlie Tour".

Degas sees with formidable concentration and frames his eye's treasures in opulent, velvety settings flashed with chromatic ecstasy.

All this was done under the watchful eye of the formidable Hiroshi Yamauchi, then president of Nintendo Japan.