formidability
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Perceptions of formidability and prestige had a larger impact in societies with more relational mobility -- where group members interact more often with strangers -- and more violence.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2024
Stripped to their essentials, however, our constitutional processes gain a certain stark formidability.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2021
But above all else, there needs to a be a sense of threat and formidability.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 1, 2018
Giving her formidability a greyer hue, she played a prison governor striving to be, as well as a disciplinarian, as sensitive as possible to the problems of the prisoners.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2011
He had soft places and was girdled with a ponderous stomach and huge buttocks, but the weight did not diminish his formidability.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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