I loved this quote, which takes place when a lady from the authorities comes to their house to say that Charles cannot look after Sophie because it really shines a light on Charles' character: "Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles.
With her formidable wit, provocative social observations, and magical gift with words, she touched countless audiences by providing a window into the often mystifying dance between men and women, and later, her wisdom on the tragic comedy of growing old.
These observations illustrate the formidable challenges that remain to be addressed in the functional analysis of the genomes of filamentous fungi.
No indication is given that this formidable tutor would embrace the collaborative observations from her pupils that Deresiewicz has learned to welcome and enjoy.
By 1994 this had become a formidable machine, honed by Mr Gould's observations of the Clinton campaign two years earlier.
"My Nine Lives" expresses, above all, her increasingly formidable detachment and, despite its many pleasures of observation, appears to round off rather than add to a distinguished corpus.
To explain why this appears to be the case, I discuss here the formidable difficulty of the problem, the previous salient observations and the proposed solutions.
The same uncertainty may be with reasonable justification applied to the cancer rate of the affected regions with their highly volatile socio-economic situation, making observation of cancer excess among liquidators a formidable task.
More formidable is the challenge that comes when every day is busy making scientific observations on that unwavering schedule.
His observation, later dubbed Moore's law, has proved remarkably reliable for 38 years, but some formidable barriers are rapidly approaching.
