Sentence examples for had been daunting from inspiring English sources

I wondered whether it had been daunting.

I mention that, when we were talking about Edward St Aubyn, Nicholls recalled that it had been daunting to meet a "you know, proper novelist".

Pickles told the conference that it had been daunting to shake up local government at a time when there is a "lot less money" to fund the change.

Even though he trains in the European fashion in Maryland, letting his horses hack, or jog, through the wooded trails and open fields of a 350-acre training center, he conceded that preparing Animal Kingdom for his run at history had been daunting.

Even though she is the world's most sought-after photographer, Leibovitz also admitted back in 1999 she had been daunted by the prospect of beginning the project.

Holloway seemed unsure afterwards whether he had been too cautious – "if we'd started like we finished, we might have got absolutely hammered" – or his players had been daunted by the opposition.

The fund-raising would have been daunting.

In the past, his roll has been daunting to opponents.

But the logistics of directing her first film must still have been daunting.

The transition back to private life has been daunting and psychologically challenging, he said.

An aide to Jeb Bush acknowledged that, for the former Florida governor, "The unlearning curve has been daunting".