Sentence examples for but intimidating from inspiring English sources

The unflinching intelligence of his writing can be exhilarating, but intimidating.

If I were a casting director recreating the event for a film, I would describe him as a "James Gandolfini type": oversized, lumbering but intimidating.

He was anything but intimidating, sitting with remote control in hand to fast-forward, rather than to set off an explosion, with a shawl draped around him and his beard undyed.

You might even describe its austerely beautiful but intimidating Arctic Circle setting (the movie was filmed on the northernmost tip of Chukotka in extreme northeastern Siberia) as a circle of hell.

Their eventual score of 106 for six was competitive but intimidating, least of all to an order as destructive as Bangalore's, and they looked well satisfied leaving the field between innings.

The 48-year-old said he welcomed the "super but intimidating" prospect of leading Ireland.

It was; but intimidated was another word that may have fit.

All this sounded like Chinese to Pereda, but, intimidated as he was by the beauty of his son's guest, he refrained from saying so.

As a writer I'm quite fond of books, but intimidated by tackling a form not defined by dialogue.

The Mongols were not able to penetrate the walls of the city in the Battle of Zhongdu, but intimidated the Jin emperor into paying tribute.

He is scrappy but indomitable, intimidating but vulnerable, strong but a little paunchy too.