Sentence examples for formidable library from inspiring English sources

He amassed a formidable library of jazz on film, and he frequently put together special film recitals for jazz club members and societies.

One of his ancestors fled religious persecution in the 15th century and settled in what is now Mali, bringing his formidable library with him.

The investor group believes that Miramax has significant unrealized value, including a formidable library of more than 600 films and as much as $300 million in receivables, according to one of the people briefed on the matter.

There was the formidable library of poetry, fiction and travel, but also his jade collection, the snakeskin, the hippo tusk, the hinge (or brace) from the ruined 13th-century church door.

He brings with him a formidable library, including works by Lawrence Durrell and T. S. Eliot, "Moby-Dick" and "a book called 'Vineland.' " There are also, Charles notes, "two sets of powder-blue pajamas decorated by red dashes at all angles to one another.

The largest firms with formidable content libraries of their own might be able to compete in this environment.

On long hunting trips, he wrote in "A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open" (1916), a man could really sink his teeth into "the writings of Turgot, or a German study of the Mongols, or even a German edition of Aristophanes, with erudite explanations of the jokes, as you never would if surrounded by less formidable authors in your own library".

The new director has decreed that the library should focus on building formidable collections in three areas, about the ancient library itself, about Alexandria and about Egypt.

Howe's book is one of the few in my library that harks back so many years, and its formidable dimensions, in relation to its neighbors on the bookshelf, continue to exert a psychological influence.

Arem's amassed a new library of over 40 creative properties he hopes will position PCB as a formidable Hollywood player.

For one, as Eduige, the formidable mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, sings at center stage, Rodelinda travels to a remote perch in the palace library — which, in Thomas Lynch's set design, spans the stage — to fetch a book for her son, Flavio.