Though he admired his father greatly, the opportunity to be out from under Palin Majere's formidable shadow while doing something important on his own appealed to him.
Later, he was largely shielded from scrutiny by the formidable shadow of President Clinton, who absorbed countless blows from Congress and the news media.
Although it has a hard time establishing its own identity in the formidable shadow of Jackson Hole, Grand Targhee is big.
He cast a formidable shadow over English poetry in the 18th and 19th centuries; he was often judged equal or superior to all other English poets, including Shakespeare.
On "The Tom Show," Tom Arnold continues to try to invent a career outside Roseanne's formidable shadow, but he does it by playing off his real-life story.
But it is safe to say that in the 45 centuries the great pyramids of Giza have cast their formidable shadow over the desert, they have never before been described as a cuckoo clock.
FOALS stood in their mothers' formidable shadows.
LEAD: During Frida Kahlo's life, she and her paintings existed in the formidable shadow of her husband, the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.
This hill station like place lies in the formidable shadow of Brahmagiri hills in the Sahyadri range and it is the source of holy river Godavari.
Still, the cousins have grown up in the formidable shadow of their fathers and uncles.