Sentence examples for formidable lord from inspiring English sources
The film, which co-starred Christopher Lee as the island's formidable lord, had a troubled production and was heavily cut for its release.
After Disraeli won widespread acclaim in March 1842 for worsting the formidable Lord Palmerston in debate, he was taken up by a small group of idealistic new Tory MPs, with whom he formed the Young England group.
Magnus is a Viking lord whose formidable virility has resulted in his fathering of ten progeny with "four wives, six concubines, numerous passing fancies, and at least one barley-faced maid".
Through it all, Mr. Shaye and Mr. Lynne have insisted that while it was a formidable challenge, the making of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy was never reckless or big enough to put their company at risk.
This year bands on a meteoric rise like Alt-J, Lord Huron, The Joy Formidable, St. Lucia, Foxygen and others played 10 times over a week and often three times a day.
Formidable editors and publishers like Charles Anderson Dana and Joseph Pulitzer lorded over newsrooms where gaslight was shifting to electric, while spittoons, hand-cranked telephones and suspenders were still commonplace.
Lord Justice Leveson and his chief attack dog Robert Jay QC emerged as a formidable double act.
Such armoured cavalrymen, scattered out across the agricultural landscape as lords and local protectors of village communities, could readily assemble a formidable force to oppose nomad raiding parties.
Those lords whose protection was most worth having also had the largest throng of dependents and thus became more formidable to their enemies and to the remaining freemen.
