Feeney, a writer and editor at The Boston Globe, offers up formidably intelligent analyses of some key episodes and themes from Richard Nixon's life.

And formidably intelligent.

Kimble is pursued by the relentless police detective Lt. Philip Gerard (Morse), a formidably intelligent family man and dedicated public servant.

These authors, he argues, "have absorbed the past of fantasy, they move it on in new directions, and they are formidably intelligent."

Cecilia Bartoli, a formidably intelligent singer, has it.

With almost 50 books to her name, the formidably intelligent Margaret Atwood is a force to be reckoned with.

He was formidably intelligent and absolutely relentless.

Whereas he had always heard that Praecia was as formidably intelligent as she was well educated.

This English gentleman with his style and his manners was not only formidably strong, he was formidably intelligent.

To own an intellect like his yet be the bravest of the brave was distinction enough, for formidably intelligent men usually saw too many risks in valor.