Sentence examples for mind formidable from inspiring English sources

Ken Hawley, who has died aged 87, was one of Sheffield's foremost industrial historians, a former tool salesman whose inquiring mind, formidable drive and eye for an opportunity led him to assemble a collection of international importance.

In his 1981 book, "When Harlem Was in Vogue," the scholar David Levering Lewis writes of Fauset, "There is no telling what she would have done had she been a man, given her first-rate mind and formidable efficiency at any task".

Minds more formidable than Dan Brown's have tried to crack the da Vinci code.

Elstein is nothing if not a formidable mind.

A lazy and lacklustre student, Nichols had a quick mind and a formidable intellectual inheritance.

But we also see her formidable mind slipping as she enters her 80s.

Brown may lack Blair's political touch, but he has a formidable mind and deep convictions.

She will be forever missed and remembered through the lives that she touched with her remarkable mind, charitable heart, formidable spirit, and her belief in social justice.

Even in law school, which was full of highly intelligent people (just ask them), Kagan stood out from the start as one with a formidable mind.

Watching his formidable mind at work deconstructing nouvelle cuisine or creating a taxonomy of French sauces, it becomes clear just how he has kept that seat for so long.

He picked his shots of defiance with some strength of mind – and some formidable technique – but the problem was that the rest of the field and, most notably, Mickelson kept coming.