Sentence examples for intimidating setting from inspiring English sources

And it all took place in an elegant though not intimidating setting.

But, while the menu won't exactly be ordinary, Blumenthal does not want it to be intimidating, setting a set lunch menu at £25, not least because he wants a busy, noisy dining room rather than a grand, austere one.

"As a small shop, we're a more intimate, less intimidating setting," she said.

Practice, Practice, Practice No matter how much experience you have, an audition is an intimidating setting, so you need to be confident about your material.

The location also makes sense because the work was conceived in a comparably cavernous and intimidating setting, the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern.

But it said that the routine use of anonymous juries might be justified "not in response to a particular need for juror protection or to withhold information," but "to accommodate jurors in an unfamiliar and intimidating setting".

Despite the admirable if intimidating example set by a few hardy individuals around winter, and the occasional "anything goes" Christmas exception, I have to admit to being a bit of a fair-weather wild swimmer myself.

The prisoners in this "La Mancha" are an especially noisy and menacing lot, given to twirling in thugish ways (the macho choreography is by Luis Perez) and perching ominously on the rusting ironlike walls of Paul Brown's intimidating set.

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There are suggestions in the news media that the bank will try to intimidate speculators by setting limits to the spreads, agreeing to buy Spanish or Italian bonds in sufficient quantities for a long enough time to beat back speculation.

Stalls selling a panoply of Taiwanese food at its weirdest and most intimidating had set up camp.