"intimidating air" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that exudes a sense of fear or intimidation. It is often used to describe a person's demeanor or presence. Example: The CEO entered the room with an intimidating air, causing all of the employees to straighten up and pay attention.
Even McCain's most soft-spoken adviser, Charlie Black, has an intimidating air of country-club paternalism.
At 48, with his erect posture, blunt features and mournful ice-blue eyes, he gives off the intimidating air of an aging middleweight boxer who still has a few knockout punches left in him.
Zardari, who is now in his mid-fifties, has lost some of the swagger of his youth, but with his well-pressed robes, trimmed mustache, and jet-black hair combed straight back, he still has the intimidating air of a South Asian ward boss.
A tall man with an intimidating air of authority and a staccato speaking style, Silberstein is one of the country's leading headache experts and the senior editor of the most authoritative book in the field.
People find it confusing and often intimidating to air grievances with their lawyers, the research concluded: "Inherent within the complaints system is a lack of confidence that the complaints process with a legal services provider will work objectively and a feeling that to complain will disadvantage the consumer".
And those same households, according to the source, are also intimidated by air travel but still have the desire to take family vacations.
The primary target buyer is the aging baby boomer who, according to the memo, "wants to lead an active, mobile lifestyle, but who is now intimidated by air travel and yet still maintains both a summer and winter home".
And as a result of this extremity, Ella is forced to spend the summer with the paternal grandmother she has never met, an intimidating widow with "the air of a queen," who inspires comparisons ranging from Darth Vader to Cruella de Vil, someone "you've heard stories about but don't believe actually exists," who lives in a deeply eccentric adobe in Albuquerque that Ella calls the House of Mud.
With aluminum-and-fabric sails that spread three feet wide, sweeping and flapping in unison to stir the air, it could easily be intimidating.
His patrician air and old Russian charm were intimidating, and at work endowed him with an unusual sex appeal that was also a source of power.
It's intimidating because the show has been on the air for so long.
