This session, in its dedication to that instrument and its possibilities, seems all the more a reckoning with Ayler's formidable musical inventions and persona.
This is less a work of formidable retention than concentrated invention.
"Forgotten," Pat Kinevane's one-man show at the Irish Arts Center, gracefully illustrates that point with the mimickry, invention and formidable stamina of this actor-playwright, a native of County Cork.
But producing CIGS cells on a mass scale has turned out to be a formidable technological challenge, requiring the invention of specialized manufacturing equipment.
For Dewey, the invention of steam, electricity, and the telephone offered formidable challenges to relatively static and homogeneous forms of local community life that had long represented the main theatre for most human activity.
The systemic limitations of American soccer -- everything from collegiate invention to no ascendant "street" culture -- presents a formidable challenge.
Most of these inventions are missing the point: A well-made hot chocolate is a formidable drink all on its own.
But determining which scientific and technological inventions merited distinction as the greatest breakthroughs of the last century proved as formidable and fraught an assignment as, say, choosing the greatest baseball players of the last hundred years.
The trireme, a late Archaic invention (the first Greek ones are said to have been built at Corinth), was a formidable weapon of war pulled by 170 rowers and carrying 30 other effectives.
It allows the reader to decipher words newly encountered and permits the invention of spellings for new patterns of sound, including proper names (a problem that is formidable for nonalphabetic systems).
