Sure, we want him to take some hand in preparing the formidable volume of food he's consuming these days, but more than that, we want him to understand and take some part in the labor that goes into producing the neat, convenient rows of bottles and jars lined up on our refrigerator and pantry shelves.
No one has been able to authenticate the quote, and John G. Nicolay, a private secretary to Lincoln and co-author with John Hay of a formidable ten-volume Lincoln biography, called it a bald, unblushing forgery.
Her ability to finish against such an experienced, formidable opponent speaks volumes about the strength of her mental game.
It helps that the actor is blessed with a growly, instantly commanding voice capable of swallowing the Duchess Theatre whole and a formidable stature that speaks volumes when his character, Troy Maxson, is bent double by the sort of tragic flaws that we recognize from both Shakespeare and Arthur Miller.
Although it measures a formidable 10percentt alcohol by volume, the anniversary beer avoids the hot, solventlike taste that mars many young barleywines.
Deeply researched and including a formidable bibliographic component, the volume also serves as a reference guide to scholars desiring to study, at greater length, one of the many topics raised.
The Talmud is a formidable body of work: 63 volumes of rabbinical discourse and disputation that form Judaism's central scripture after the Torah.
The change in guest list is illustrative of this: bigger names (Norah Jones, Snoop Dogg, the wearyingly ubiquitous Emeli Sandé) delivering pleasant but undemanding performances instead of the formidable vocal creativity displayed on Volume 1 by Meshell Ndegeocello, Ledisi and Bilal.
L'Année philologique was founded by Jules Marouzeau in Paris in the 1920s and for decades operated from a single office by the formidable Juliette Ernst, but as the volume of work increased additional offices were founded in other countries.
For his own reference, Mr. Oinonen keeps on hand a formidable set of about 700 bibliographical volumes of all books in the Library of Congress.
