Sentence examples for somewhat forbidding from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sorkin said Mr. Storch was a somewhat forbidding figure on campus.

The street is still somewhat forbidding at night — though that, too, is starting to change.

Within its somewhat forbidding gray walls, you will find a cheerful modern shopping mall lined with boutique-like Beriozkas.

"Lovely music," says the stately, somewhat forbidding, weatherbeaten woman sitting on a dark bay Irish hunter at the edge of a field in the Cotswolds.

Until the end of the 18th century, investigations in electricity and magnetism exhibited more of the hypothetical and spontaneous character of Newton's Opticks than the axiomatic and somewhat forbidding tone of his Principia.

Michael," a somewhat forbidding work with a difficult, mulish hero: here, a monk (played by pale, austere Julian Sands) struggling with self-doubt and the temptations of the flesh.

Lewis en famille is naturally a somewhat less forbidding character.

The movie's house of mischief, St. Mathilda's School, is an imposing edifice only somewhat less forbidding than the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane in "Shutter Island".

The movie's house of mischief, St. Mathilda's School, is an imposing edifice only somewhat less forbidding than the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane in "Shutter Island". It is not a place you would ever describe as homey.

A sophisticated, art-filled escape from bedlam, somewhat formal but not forbidding.

But other pieces, ranging from monoliths like the rough humanoid basalt "Age" (1981) to the low, coffin-shaped "Thebes" (1982) of basalt in contrasting tones, seem somewhat ill at ease in the forbidding space around them.