Sentence examples for formidable grace from inspiring English sources
Misty Copeland's own rise to fame, as the first African-American woman to be named principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, echoes her own ability to capture that sense of aesthetic perfection within the formidable grace of her onstage presence.
Strong and vivid, City of Blood (Harvill Secker, £12.99) is the coming-of-age story of both Siphiwe, who is guided by the formidable Grace, "mother" of the shelter where he lives and the novel's moral core, and the slightly older Progress, an apprentice gangster keen to make his mark, who finds himself dangerously in thrall to Letswe's beautiful mistress, Lucille.
The formidable mentor will grace our Capital stage.
The 21-year-old ran in a try and helped create three more on his Test debut, employing a formidable combination of grace and power to torment the Pumas' defence throughout.
Then, she was all legs and arms — part cat burglar, part beatnik — using her gangly grace and formidable gaze to pull the viewer deep within her restless mind.
She was one of TV's first celebrity chefs and remains one of the most famous, flamboyant and formidable cooks ever to grace the small screen.
Here, under his direction, the kitchen is executing the menu with grace and formidable skill.
Bounding prodigiously over the 10 three-foot hurdles, taking an unprecedented 13 steps between hurdles instead of the usual 14, he was a formidable assembly of speed, technique, grace and stamina; Moses consistently made the most demanding of events seem almost ridiculously simple.
The odds against any woman finding success as a jazz musician in the late 1940s and early '50s were formidable, but Ms. McPartland overcame them with grace.
But there is plenty of muscle to her performance as well, along with a poised, unselfconscious grace and, most importantly, a formidable intelligence that rarely makes a single note seem superfluous.
Yet she has displayed commendable grace under pressure during debates with the formidable Alex Salmond and has managed to rattle him on more than a few occasions.
