Sentence examples for formidable shows from inspiring English sources

When rivals check out the health of the Fox Broadcasting Company this television season, they see a network schedule full of holes, with many nights in decline or outright disarray, and with a very short list of formidable shows.

NBC, which once dominated Thursdays — the night for which advertisers pay the most to reach viewers because of weekend events like movie openings and car sales — has been severely injured by the scheduling of the most formidable shows that two competing networks have to offer.

A formidable showing, then, for homegrown Chinese films in 2013's first quarter.

Joining him were the first lady, Michelle Obama, former president Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, a formidable show of force for one of Clinton's final acts as Democratic candidate.

In sexy, affluent Hamburg, the Staatsoper is staging a formidable show about a sexy, affluent city bent on its own destruction.

But the authorities, never shy about baring their teeth, have also rolled out a formidable show of force, cordoning off parks and public squares with paramilitary police and threatening to dismiss government workers who join the rallies.

A sculpture park on the roof of the 10-storey building in Rye Lane forms the highlight of the third Bold Tendencies exhibition from the Hannah Barry Gallery, which has joined forces with four local artists' groups for a formidable show.

An early welded-steel sculpture by David Smith, "Structure of Arches" (1939), makes a formidable showing -- a rough, tough semi-architectural mix of forms that also has the presence of a creature.

The young Muscovites gathered on Thursday to show support for their government, which had sent tanks into the former Soviet republic of Georgia in the most formidable show of Russian military strength beyond its borders since the fall of the Soviet Union, and many in the crowd saw in the past week's events as a comeuppance for the arrogant West.

The rest of her fellow nominees followed suit, making for a formidable showing of women on stage that drew a standing ovation from the crowd.

Longo's formidable drawing shows the shadow on America's conscience.