Sentence examples for seemed fearsome from inspiring English sources

He can't abide this modern practice of kissing - people lurching at each other's faces - "when they've never even met!" He reminds me of childhood friends' fathers who seemed fearsome until we got old enough to realise they were being funny.

Listeners' changing perceptions shape performances as well: If these quartets once seemed fearsome for their dissonance and brash energy, they are now an accepted part of the musical landscape, and if the job of an ensemble in the 1940s was to make them comprehensible to audiences, now the task is more nuanced and complex.

Joyce's Leopold Bloom walked many of the same streets that my character walked, but fortunately I hadn't read Ulysses when I was writing Eggshells, or the task would have seemed too fearsome.

First impressions came from childhood, when all woods can seem deep, fearsome and immense.

But the youngest member of the family, Small, calling the others "such sillies," boldly ventures outdoors to confront the beast, who seems quite fearsome at first.

We also don't seem as fearsome when we're gender-normative (i.e., when the men look manly and the women look feminine).

During his set S.O.B.'s, his first New York concert in some time, this once fearsome rapper seemed levelheaded and fit.

On Thursday night at S.O.B.'s, in his first New York concert in some time, this once fearsome rapper seemed levelheaded and fit.

To her mother, this fearsome routine seemed the best way to handle a child who was socially awkward, terrified of drawing attention to herself and given to the dangerous habit of daydreaming.

By the time he was ushered off, the crowd had grown silent, and it seemed possible that the fearsome performer known as the warlord had been saved by the bell.

Focussing my attention sharply on the news through the work of reporting helped me to clarify my perspective on the events, which, at first flush and from a fearsome distance, seemed so bewildering.