Even if "Khan's rapid success came as a particular shock because it so quickly transformed this runt called Pakistan into something like a runt with a gun," it still had a disproportionately daunting effect.
The director, Chris Marker, saw that the most daunting effect of changing the clock was not that we might salvage a world in peril, or vault ahead to weird new worlds, as envisaged by H. G. Wells, but that we might bump into ourselves.
Metaphysics and megalomania are mixed on a daunting scale, and the effect is overwhelming.
It may be a temporary condition — restraint in the face of daunting economic headwinds — but the effect is immediate: very little cake will be served at the Paris Motor Show this year.
The challenges of implementing small satellites within limited resources can be daunting when faced with radiation effects on delicate electronics that require shielding or unique adaptations for protection, or mass, power and volume limitations due to constraints placed by the carrier spacecraft, or even Planetary Protection compliant design techniques that drive assembly and testing.
But even for Smithingham, a visual effects expert, this project was daunting.
To be sure, the big banks and firms face daunting issues: Massive regulatory costs, and the ripple effect of the European banking crisis chief among them.
Heat traveling down microscopic girders and beams should behave in a similar way, but until now, daunting technical challenges prevented researchers from seeing quantum effects.
Even if we could measure flow over temporal and spatial scales relevant to developing egg masses, modeling its effects on oxygen levels would be daunting.
Although the composition of these formulations may appear daunting at first, a consideration of the physiological effects of the individual components can help to demystify these complex therapies.
Teaching AI to, in effect, explain itself is one worthy – though possibly daunting - approach.
