Sentence examples for formidable old from inspiring English sources
Enrique Peña Nieto, a telegenic young governor from a formidable old PRI family, will be Mexico's next President.
Mr Vogt records everything by hand, with the help of an electronic adding machine and a formidable old typewriter.
All Casey now has to do is negotiate a path around the formidable Old Course and at the same bypass the equally imposing Louis Oosthuizen.
Years ago, Ephron lucked into a vast, regally high-ceilinged eight-room flat in a formidable old apartment block on the Upper West Side.
The New Yorker, October 8 , 1955P. 39 A formidable old lady and her granddaughter of about 8, seated themselves at the Cafe Francais in Rockefeller Center.
By J. Steiger and John McCarten The New Yorker, October 8 , 1955P. 39 A formidable old lady and her granddaughter of about 8, seated themselves at the Cafe Francais in Rockefeller Center.
The book's narrator remembers his grandfather as a formidable, old-fashioned warrior for God who used to conduct church services while wearing his pistol.
Last March, when Charles Spencer unwisely described her performance in Madame de Sade as "sour and cross" and suggested that it had been delivered in "formidable old-boot mode", Dame Judi unwisely wrote him a letter explaining that he was "an absolute shit" and she was "sorry I didn't get a chance to kick you".
Their "inevitable" candidate Hillary would have been coronated and she would have steamrolled herself into the Democratic Presidential nomination with a formidable, decades-old, well-branded, supremely-well-connected political machine and a massive bankroll to ensure that she was (like the Titanic) "unsinkable".
His career record is 2-1 over Federer but the Swiss has won this tournament for the last four years and looked like he was returning to his old formidable self against Novak Djokovic in the other semi-final.
You look at Blair and his favourites, and you think, none was formidable, in the old, EM Forster sense of having a character that imposes itself with persuasive grace.
