Generally, it was a formidable year for new music — so much so that my ten notable recordings are entirely contemporary, with dead composers demoted to the honorable-mention category.
"Raising the age-limit to 39, the age at which Dylan died, has opened the field and given us an extraordinarily strong shortlist, but even then this is a formidable year," said chair of judges Peter Florence, founder of the Hay festival.
Adding to that, we were tomboys, playing hockey in the street with the boys and preferring GI Joe and Transformer action figures over Barbie...and so the vultures attacked for eight formidable years.
However, the Betsiboka and Tsiribihina Rivers are far more formidable year-round than is the Sakamena and the even-smaller Ihazoara River.
1– 3 This is especially important during the formidable years of adolescence, where psychological distress can cause significant social problems.
If Acer, Huawei and others churning out handsets with Android is an indicator of where the operating system is heading, it will be everywhere and its app selection will be formidable before year's end.
No nonincumbent in the history of contemporary U.S. presidential politics ever looked so formidable three years before an election.
Well, the SNP had the best thing about the election in the formidable 20-year-old Mhairi Black, the politics student who unseated Douglas Alexander.
Spurred by the murders of her father and brother at the hands of a rival clan, Rita, now a formidable 17-year-old embodied by Veronica D'Agostino, seeks out the prosecutor and offers to testify against the killers and their associates.
A few miles outside the town, approachable only by walking across a deep gorge, we found the idyllic oasis of El Divisadero, presided over by a formidable 80-year-old, Teresa Gutiérrez.
It began with the two of them, but the woman who continues to hold the company together – the matriarch, you might say – is the quietly formidable 69-year-old Elizabeth LeCompte.
