What is "intimidating"

Usage examples of "intimidating".

Consequently, his relations to the wooers are newly exacerbated, particularly with Antinous, the most intimidating of the lot, who is only a little older than Telemachus but just old enough actually to remember Odysseus from his own childhood.

It was an awesome look, an intimidating look, the look of not only Jordan but also one of those wrestlers who has built himself up into a brute of sheer muscle and testosteronethe shaved head, the powerful neck, the bulging shrink-wrapped traps, delts, pecs, lats, and the rest of it.

Grail of Jacksonian foreign policy: a weapons system that defends this nation while intimidating all others, and that would allow the United States to control events around the world without risking the lives of its citizen soldiers.

Like many Manhattanites, I find automobiles baffling, even intimidating.

When Mommy and Daddy tucked Minni in, I edged between them and the side of the bed, baring my teeth in an only partially intimidating manner.

Earth, the same vaulted ceiling and elaborate pillars, the intimidating air of reverence, though here the polyp walls were a clean snow-white, and instead of an altar there was a fountain bubbling out of an antique marble Venus.

Unnamed Carter aides were quoted as saying that like his mentor, Carter could be brutal and intimidating, not given to praise.

The prominent supraorbital ridge, deep sunken eyes, and tightly stretched skin were intimidating enough.

Shouts of laughter rent the air, which had such an intimidating effect on Eazas and Cerberus that not all the adjurations of the exorcists could extract the slightest response.

A difficult winter and spring waiting in Wayland for the passes to clear, a grueling journey over the mountains, and a month spent in almost constant motion winning over or, at times, intimidating the Aostan nobles had not wearied Henry as much as his new bride, new child, and new throne had uplifted him.

Along with the other attendees of the banquet, including the regent herself, he looked on in surprise as two imposing colony members, no doubt bred for their intimidating stature, marched toward the main table, dragging with them a struggling figure whom Kirk quickly identified as Korax.

The oversize head projected at the top of the pedestal followed each approaching donor with a steely programmed gaze, smiling at the hefty contributions and intimidating the cheapskates with a scowl.

Shock and Awe can become sufficiently intimidating and compelling factors to force or otherwise convince an adversary to accept our will in the Clausewitzian sense, such that the strategic aims and military objectives of the campaign will achieve a political end.

Washington have succeeded in intimidating toy dealers just in time for Christmas.

It was all so intimidating: they had the power and the lamp, and I was just the dickhead in the corner.