Sentence examples for formidable screen from inspiring English sources

Bale gives it his usual scary concentration and he is a formidable screen presence: ostentatiously actorish, but watchably so.

A formidable screen presence who suggests a sexy, gap-toothed hybrid of Sade and Fran Drescher, Ms. Dalle exudes a tortured erotic gravitas.

It's disheartening to see Robert De Niro, the most formidable screen actor of his generation, smirking his way through so many clunky comedies late in his career.

In The Lady Eve, Sturges enjoyed the most formidable screen pairing of his career with Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, matched with his most sophisticated, layered, hilarious script.

He assisted on two goals, while helping to set up two more, one with a formidable screen of goalie Jonathan Quick and the other with a deft, decisive cross-ice pass to initiate a scoring sequence.

Flying in formation, the British were well placed to deal with lone German fighters since they could use their gunners to form a formidable defence screen.

Of course, limiting presale and instituting formidable entrance screening is likely in to put strain on some promoters, especially those who have used ticket presales as a means of capitalizing on the post-EDM economy.

He is evolving into a formidable and potent screen presence.

Bouquet is always a formidable presence on screen and he does what he can with the role, but it is conceived with such solemnity and dullness.

The Lewis novels represent a formidable storytelling challenge on screen because major characters do not carry over from one to the next.

I had seen a lot of Buckley on his own show — a formidable presence on the screen — and there he was on my next week's guest list.