The enormityofthetask†[was] just a bit lessformidable than that described in the first chapter of Genesis.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  Of postwar restructuring. Present at the Creation.

It is now apparent that this great, this powerful, this formidablekingdomisconsidered onlyas a province of a despicable electorate.

-Pitt,William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder
  Speech to the House of Commons,10 Dec.

Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

-Sophocles
Antigone, 332^3 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).