Sentence examples for formidable mind from inspiring English sources

Elstein is nothing if not a formidable mind.

But we also see her formidable mind slipping as she enters her 80s.

Brown may lack Blair's political touch, but he has a formidable mind and deep convictions.

Even in law school, which was full of highly intelligent people (just ask them), Kagan stood out from the start as one with a formidable mind.

Watching his formidable mind at work deconstructing nouvelle cuisine or creating a taxonomy of French sauces, it becomes clear just how he has kept that seat for so long.

Once its goals and ambitions are understood, the paper casts a revealing light on the early stages of his struggle to use the powers of his formidable mind for the higher good: to protect against the seductions of the intellect, and to find solid ground for his most urgent and heartfelt convictions.

Many formidable minds were involved in the translation.

Few actresses radiate the focused intelligence that Ms. Jones can when it is called for, and Shaw heroines may be unmatched in the efficiency with which they marshal their formidable minds — and agile tongues — to do battle with the forces of repression, ignorance and prejudice.

Some of the most formidable minds in the world were now employed in a technological arms race, a hidden war stalked by million-dollar predator algorithms that could swarm those of the larger, slower players – typically, pension and mutual funds – in the same way a shoal of piranhas might an ox, cutting them to shreds and pocketing the profits.

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe -- known by her initials or as Elizabeth -- was a dry, fresh and formidable thinker, one of the foremost philosophers of mind, language, ethics and action.

The Chicago faculty is more rightward-leaning than that of other top law schools, but if teaching alongside some of the most formidable conservative minds in the country had any impact on Mr. Obama, no one can quite point to it.