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intimidating or impressive — arousing fear or admiration due to impressiveness or challenge
- Now, though Eliza was incapable of thus explaining to herself Higgins's formidable powers of resistance to the charm that prostrated Freddy at the first glance, she was instinctively aware that she could never obtain a complete grip of him, or come between him and his mother (the first necessity of the married woman).Act 5 (65% in)
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