Sentence examples for formidable merits from inspiring English sources

Thus, because of studio interference, "Fantastic Four," for all its formidable merits, has become both a critical flop and a commercial disaster.

The movie is a classic example of the good precluding the great — and the admiration for its formidable merits getting in the way of an uninhibitedly ecstatic viewing experience.

I haven't seen any of the other films in competition at Cannes, but, judging Terrence Malick's new film "The Tree of Life" (which opens this Friday, and which Anthony Lane reviews in the magazine this week) on its own formidable merits, it's utterly worthy of its Golden Palm.

But my vote is that Hu's power is too constrained, and the influence of the U.S. remains too formidable, to merit putting him above the U.S. President.

Hoccleve's aspiration to be Chaucer's successor was rapidly overshadowed, in sheer bulk if not necessarily in literary merit, by the formidable oeuvre of John Lydgate, a monk at the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds.

A team that could combine the merits of both would be formidable indeed.

And beneath that formidable barrier is an immune system that merits the modifier: it is virtually immune to defeat.

Yasmine Gooneratne, another cousin within the vast Bandaranaike clan, who recounted "Uncle Paulie's" scathing comments in her family memoirs, Relative Merits, describes "Aunt Sirima" as "the most formidable and charismatic leader the country has ever seen".

A young recruit to The Economist, somewhat intimidated by her formidable reputation and spinsterish appearance, once ventured that, whatever the merits of abstract art, he really preferred the representational kind.

But Broder feels McCain is a formidable candidate, and I have a hard time disagreeing on the merits.

The search for binary sequences with a high figure of merit, known as the low autocorrelation binary sequence (labs) problem, represents a formidable computational challenge.