As she received me, half lying on her couch with a blanket draped over her lap, I knew I was coming before someone who was quite formidable, no matter her age and condition.
Mr. Cuomo made no direct mention of his opponent in the Democratic primary, H. Carl McCall, focusing his attention entirely on Mr. Pataki, who is seeking a third term and who is, in the view of many politicians, a formidable opponent no matter which Democrat wins the Sept. 10 primary.
It has to be a formidable task, no matter how fast you're growing.
In that sense it is not Jeremy Corbyn's formidable beard power that matters but his principles.
Those fighting words have unquestionably helped Ms. Warren, a Harvard law professor who set up the Obama administration's new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, become a formidable candidate in a matter of weeks.
Over the years, he had learned that nothing really bad ever happened to him, that he was impervious to injury, if not to embarrassment, no matter how formidable the adversary or unexpected its arrival.
All things to all people, all kinds of people with no real differences, "Spider-Man: Homecoming" is a pseudo-humanistic coming-of-age movie that melts its components — and, for that matter, the formidable artistry of its cast — into a saccharine goo.
No matter how formidable the stature of the person who occupies it, Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi seems simply too grand to serve as a home for any individual, even if that person happens to be the President of India.
Does the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) constitute a radical shift in the history and the future of the Arab region, or is it a transient phenomenon, no matter how formidable it seems with its strength and its performance in the battlefields of Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon today?
Conducting the hard-to-impress pros of the formidable New York Philharmonic is another matter.
