Sentence examples for but off-putting from inspiring English sources
At the moment, the museum is enticing from afar but off-putting up close.
The give-and-take between waiters and many patrons suggested that Bella Luna is a neighborhood hangout, fun for pals but off-putting to strangers.
Proving that fiscal ineptitude was then what it is now -- customary in Washington but off-putting in investment circles -- Grant found himself on the brink of bankruptcy.
"When it works, it's amazingly impactful, but when it doesn't work, it's not only creepy but off-putting," said Tim Hanlon, a principal at the consulting firm Riverview Lane Associates of Chicago.
"My point here," Zuckerman writes, "isn't to elucidate all the peculiarities of my social network (indeed, analysing these diagrams is a bit like analysing your dreams – fascinating to you, but off-putting to everyone else).
"I wanted something that felt child-friendly, family friendly, but not off-putting to adults," he said.
But as off-putting as this odd effect may be in the average film, it is ideal for "Gravity".
The Yukon gold potato and truffle soup was tasty enough, but an off-putting skin had formed on top.
"He's got this way of articulating a vision, which is progressive but not off-putting," said Mr. Glickman, 74, who led Harvard's Institute of Politics at the time.
The songs — raunchy but never off-putting — felt almost incidental, especially when Mr. Adler gazed upon the crowd as if he were getting away with something.
