A formidable figure in American press boxes during my Sports Illustrated years was Jerome Holtzman of The Chicago Tribune.
But the difficulty of squaring that elusive circle in the face of the trivialisation, relentless misrepresentation and cruel mockery of a hostile press is formidable.
It didn't take the agency long to figure out that the callers who had braved its formidable phone tree -- West Nile virus, press 1; rodent complaints, press 2; exposure to asbestos, press 3 -- had recently attended the dinner.
This potentially presents a considerable burden to patients, as well as a formidable administrative burden to hard pressed health care professionals.
There is more, much more.... Claude Terrail and his formidable Tour d'Argent restaurant, with its Pressed Duck dish and picturesque view; he married Jack Warner's daughter, Barbara, to unexpected results.
Knausgaard's fellow-Norwegian Linn Ullmann published an excellent, formidable novel this year, "The Cold Song" (Other Press, translated by Barbara J. Haveland).
Then Chris Christie, the formidable governor of New Jersey, held a brutal press conference in which he pointedly shamed Boehner for having dropped the Sandy relief bill.
Nor was there sufficient challenge to the way the rightwing press increasingly and flagrantly used its formidable and biased campaigning power.
But as Democratic groups and the Obama campaign press their case, the Republicans have a formidable operation of their own.
"With its early priority dates and territory reach, the Jaenisch portfolio is formidable," Paul Grayson, president of Fate Therapeutics, said in a press release.
