But her vivid sartorial choices are far from incidental to the formidable effect of her playing.
She is also, according to her admirers, a formidable organiser of her neighbours on the ground.
After his early death, she grows into the formidable matriarch of her family.
And for now, Mrs. Helmsley, who controls her the formidable estate of her husband, Harry B. Helmsley, is siding with Mr. Schneider.
Yoncheva, who replaced the originally announced Anna Netrebko several months ago in the title role, made a formidable job of her first effort.
Misty Copeland's own rise to fame, as the first African-American woman to be named principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, echoes her own ability to capture that sense of aesthetic perfection within the formidable grace of her onstage presence.
If John Quincy had to contend, at the start, with his father-in-law's financial calamity, Louisa for decades had to endure the formidable strictures of her mother-in-law.
In two weeks, the Quakers will tangle with Harvard (5-2, 3-1), the most formidable of their three remaining opponents.
McAleese, who was president for two terms and was considered one of the most formidable European leaders of her generation, said Britain had a formidable voice in Europe, a strong voice that counterbalanced the rightwing, anti-democractic undertones emerging in some quarters.
But he warns that Clinton still has the resources to deploy a formidable ground game of her own, something there are few official figures to prove or disprove.
