Sentence examples for daunting and impossible from inspiring English sources

The size of the festival is daunting and impossible for any single person to size up.

My boyfriend, Nick, and I recently competed in a three-mile mud race, complete with 26 obstacles; each one was more daunting and impossible than the last, and yet I got over each one.

While teaching rules and procedures came fairly naturally, investing students in our culture and goals seemed daunting, foreign and impossible.

But raising its energies still further to the point of ignition could take a year or more of experimentation and might, officials concede, prove daunting and perhaps impossible.

With a smaller department, going through so many resumes can be daunting at best and impossible at worst.

This negative attitude has meant that many people view a return to work as daunting, and in some cases, near-impossible.

This daunting, perhaps impossible task is best left to the ideal Oscar Wilde described in "The Critic as Artist" (1891): the critic who regards his craft as the grandest art of all.

Here, Mr. Obama employed an even wider historical lens, asking Americans to remember the daunting, seemingly impossible challenges faced by the founding fathers in winning independence from the mighty British Empire.

Sounds mystical — and impossible.

This would be daunting, perhaps impossible.

Tax regulations and exchange controls have been simplified under Mr Putin, but they are still daunting, and a few years ago they were almost impossible to negotiate honestly.