He writes with elegant subtlety, brings formidable expertise to bear - and makes up his own mind.
Tallis brings his formidable analysis to bear on the many challenges we face when trying to make sense of our sense-making.
"I'm delighted that Andrew Marr is bringing his formidable skills to bear on the most significant story we can ever hope to tell.
NATO is an imperfect organisation, but it can still bring formidable military power to bear on complex and difficult missions.
That is by any standard a formidable success: something to bear in mind whenever yet another book or essay pronounces as this one will not that the academy is "in crisis".Needless to say, no institution lasts nine centuries without adapting.
At her best she brings to bear formidable powers of writerly observation, which may have something to do with a slight outsider's perspective developed in her unorthodox cross-cultural upbringing.
But as Margaret Thatcher said: "Anyone who imagines that they are a mere formality, or confined to social niceties, is quite wrong; they are quietly businesslike, and Her Majesty brings to bear a formidable grasp of current issues and breadth of experience".
That, in turn, may be too formidable a load for teachers to bear alone.
By this, it asserts the surface, the veracity of its paint handling and brings to bear its formidable physicality.
By treating the endogenous retroviruses as inheritable loci, we have brought the formidable knowledge of human genetics to bear on their role in disease, and avoided the difficulties of establishing the causality of a ubiquitous agent by conventional means.
Ross Brawn, remember, was at Ferrari for some time before his formidable organisational and strategic skills began to bear heavy fruit.
