A professional boxer from the 1930s, Moore for many years was avoided by middleweight and light-heavyweight champions who considered him too formidable.
No wonder Adler leaves the country, declaring him too formidable an opponent, even though she knows she has beaten him in this encounter.
"The subject is so daunting and complex, it is almost too formidable to have been done," he said.
Critics charge that the Pentagon found the problem too formidable and swept it under the rug.
Maybe the political risks are too formidable, and maybe it's too soon: Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who has admitted to planning the 9/11 attacks, is still being held at Guantánamo Bay, where his trial is once again delayed.
While Rome realised that Arns was too formidable and celebrated a figure to cross directly, it signalled its disapproval of his work by targeting those close to him, removing his confessor, the Dominican biblical scholar Frei Gilberto Gorgulho, from his posts at the archdiocesan seminary.
There's not an awful lot of room for any ooh-ing and aah-ing here, admittedly, and that's just as it should be, because the woman who wears these clothes is doubtless too formidable for that.
It's fueled by a sense of possibility -- that there is no obstacle too formidable to overcome.
Corporate sponsors should be quicker than they have been in FIFA's case to dissociate themselves from thievery.Yet because sports corruption is a reflection of wider problems—sport merely being an organism to which criminal succubi attach themselves it is too formidable for sporting organisations to tackle alone, even if they are inclined to.
Russia's problems are too formidable, decay too far gone.
These 420-millimetre siege guns proved too formidable for the forts, which one by one succumbed.
