Sentence examples for daunting length from inspiring English sources

Neither of these works had much effect on scholars in the case of Akhbār al-zamān, possibly because of its daunting length.

Six hundred sixty-one pages may seem like a lot to devote to a bunch of flatulence-obsessed kids, but that daunting length is part and parcel of the cause to which "Skippy Dies," in the end, is most devoted.

Daunted by its length, and by the challenge of telling my Alexei Alexandroviches from my Alexei Kirilloviches, I put off reading it and put off reading it until, by the end of August — having only reached the beginning of Anna and Vronsky's affair — I knew I wouldn't be near finished by the time school started up again.

It was a 20-footer, daunting not just for its length but also because of the bitter wind blowing off the vast ice sheet that covers 85percentt of this giant Arctic island.

The laundry list of amenities is daunting: a central park the length of a football field with 12,000 plants and trees; a boardwalk with two rock-climbing walls; an aqua theater with dive performances; two FlowRiders for surfing; a full-service spa and a main theater where the Broadway musical Hairspray will be shown four times a week.

Reading Proust is daunting, and not just because of length.

Their length no longer seems daunting, the unhurried unfolding of their musical narratives no longer creates problems of pacing.

In a recording, of course, the length issue is not so daunting.

Her fitness regimen, described at length in the book, is frankly daunting: hours each week spent lifting weights and in "spinning" classes, on a specially-designed stationary bicycle, with music blaring, fans roaring and sweat dripping on to the floor.

Though the length of the original document was daunting for Sikoryak, he says the hardest aspect of the project "was keeping up with the Terms as they were updated.

For some, a book-length poem might look like a daunting read, but Brown Girl Dreaming glides down easily.