Sentence examples for the daunting size from inspiring English sources

Mr. Obama's Wednesday address calling for renewed public service is unassailable in principle but inadequate to the daunting size of the serious American crisis at hand.

He acknowledged a bit of dread at the daunting size of the task this year.

Now, I am confounded by a combination of the daunting size of the task, the uncertainties of changing technology (how long are CDs I create actually going to last), my fading memory (4 kids, a few parents, aunts, uncles and cousins seem to have markedly different memories of who, what, where and when), and my spineless inability to throw almost any image away.

After first marking a square of asphalt with yellow spray paint, using a band saw of daunting size and intensity they carved the blacktop along the lines of drying paint.

His daunting size — "You're like a Sasquatch," someone in the movie says — contrasts with soft, babyish features and a wounded, wide-eyed manner.

Recently TC2 began production of a streamlined scanner, the fourth generation of a device that measured about 21 by 15 feet by 8 feet high when first produced in 1997 -- a daunting size for retailers concerned about selling space.

It would never end with him being overwhelmed by the scale of the task or daunted by the size of the job.

When we are presented with an almighty challenge, we all hope we can rise to it, even as we are daunted by the size of the task ahead.

The task is daunting, given the size and diversity of California's population, said Paul Fearer, an exchange board member.

Mr. Hocker and his colleagues are not daunted by the size of a cross-river project because they spent the last few years constructing a much longer cable between central New Jersey and Long Island.

But when we wrestled it onto the counter, even the ham's size seemed daunting.