Britt Ekland is living proof that a 1960s siren can turn into something altogether more formidable.
Should England get past Sri Lanka on Thursday, it is likely to face something still more formidable in the final Sunday.
In selling the Sling concept to other television and satellite companies, EchoStar will likely run headlong into something even more formidable: longstanding industry grudges.
Clemens, 45, the venerable pitcher, underwent something slightly more formidable than a buddy interview with Mike Wallace, 89, the esteemed journalist, to try to rebut charges that he took injections of steroids, human growth hormone and testosterone from his highly personal trainer, Brian McNamee.
This season, however, having survived summer injuries and defections, a four-game losing streak, calls for the coach's job and six fourth-quarter comebacks, the Giants arrived at their Super Bowl rematch with the Patriots as something that seemed more formidable: a team prepared to face a deficit and overcome it.
By the nineteen-eighties, the Oscar party had moved permanently to Hollywood, and it soon became something at once more formal and more formidable — a kind of hommage to Lazar, as well as a potent demonstration of his power to attract both the old guard and the new.
But Mr. Mendonça, a former film critic whose command of the medium is both formidable and subtle, is up to something more than the usual upstairs-downstairs comedy of colliding destinies in a small place.
I'd been reading a grim diet of the formidable Carlos Fuentes (who was treated like royalty at the Mexican festival) and I needed something more cheering.
