Intimidating, as a task

Usage examples of daunting.

They seemed to find her lack of response rather daunting, even the more acerbic Gelana.

Graig was an old man but his eyes still twinkled, and he still looked daunting in his crimson uniform.

So, while he turned to the daunting job of commanding the debarkation of all our company and our gear, I hailed a karaji ferry skiff and, fending off the solicitors, was the first to go ashore.

His image of England was the view from the village, the tracks that led away in each direction to impenetrable distances, ever mistier, vaguer and more daunting.

When he stopped looking at her legs and breasts in anticipation he saw there was a daunting expression on her face.

She leaned back against the seat and stared at Billy, suddenly overwhelmed by the daunting task ahead of them.

The larger, older man wore a full beardonce black, but now shot through with white, like his shoulder-length hairand this, when combined with his six feet of height, his big bones, his deep chest, rolling muscles, and plentitude of warlike scars, gave him a daunting appearance that any of the Vikings of old would have truly envied.

HIV protease and the human proteases that are essential to the digestive process, resulting in a list of ill effects every bit as daunting as that pertaining to AZT, including kidney and liver failure, strokes, heart attacks, and gross deformities.

Moreover, authoring an encyclopaedia was such a daunting and expensive task that only states, academic institutions, or well-funded businesses were able to produce them.

Four computer stations occupied the forward and aft walls, and the outside wall was filled with the daunting array of processing equipment needed to prepare samples for geochemical analysis.

He had been born beneath the wide skies of Helicon, and had at first found these covered environs a little daunting, even depressing, but his long decades on Trantor had gradually inured him.

More daunting than mere lawbreaking, too, was imagining the revenge Piet Hardie would take on him if he tried and failed.

All the rivers ran between east and west, west and east, and the daunting mountain chain of the Apennines divided peninsular Italy from Italian Gaul all the way from the Adriatic seaboard to the coast of Liguria.

Southwest deserts perhaps a tired salesman assigned to a territory so vast that it tested his stamina dazed by the daunting distances between destinations, by sun-silvered highways that seemed to go on forever.

But just as NSA seems to be getting its need for mathematicians under control, it is facing an even more daunting task in recruiting enough computer scientists.