For instance, Stacy Keach — who is on a roll, after his formidable turn in "Nebraska" — is in solid form as Mia's grandfather, chewing through his cheesy lines with ease.
Despite her belief that "sports are stupid," and that there are teams out there called the Cincinnati Thunder Wizards and the Orlando Blooms, Amy is assigned by her editor — a formidable turn by Tilda Swinton, encased in a sweeping wig and a fortress of makeup — to profile Aaron Conners Bill Haderr), a surgeon who specializes in sports injury.
Initially she sounds awed by the surroundings, perhaps nervous of following the venue's formidable regular turn, John Sentamu, famous for cutting up his dog collar and comparing pre-marital sex to "testing whether the milk is good before buying the cow".
Bemused teenagers would watch as formidable women turned up to repaint their youth club – one of those women may be the very minister who subsequently cut funding to the council and forced the club to close.
Google has had its reputation dragged through the mud over tax avoidance with Margaret Hodge, the PAC's formidable chairman, turning the company's famous "Don't be evil" slogan on its head.
Dame Edna Everage, the self-proclaimed housewife/megastar, one of the most formidable comedy turns of the twentieth century, is hanging up her diamonté harlequin glasses, her mauve wig, and her size-eleven high heels.
An engineer by training, Ms. Mayer ran Google's search business for years, and she'll face a formidable challenge in turning around the slumping Yahoo.
And in a later chase, Shaw and friends pull out a formidable tank that turns any vehicle it encounters into squished scrap metal.
Despite the stark warnings about an industry in imminent danger of being starved of the oxygen of talent, the formidable Massenet also turned the London rain into a positive.
Ahold is 115 years old, with sales estimated (before the scandal) at euro77 billion in 2002.Rather like Kenneth Lay at Enron, and Dennis Kozlowski at Tyco, another scandal-hit American firm, Ahold's now-departing boss, Cees van der Hoeven, won a formidable reputation from turning a dull company into a growth machine.
Jill Easter had hired Paul Meyer, an Orange County defense lawyer so formidable that judges turned to him when they were in trouble.
