| Yet she comes across as approachably ordinary rather than forbiddingly professorial. |
| Not only too tall, they also cut off other lower Manhattan neighborhoods from one another with their barrier-like raised plaza, forbiddingly deserted at night and on weekends. |
| He glared forbiddingly, his eyebrows beetling together like two fuzzy caterpillars were mating on his forehead. |
| The Weeping Meadow is another vast and forbiddingly sombre story about the modern Hellenic nation's painful, mysterious birth from the misty ruins of the early 20th century. |
| But if the text at times becomes rebarbatively labyrinthine, the main lines of the argument, while forbiddingly dense, are relatively clear. |
| The Beau Geste theory envisioned that multiple songs would make a male's territory appear to be held by a forbiddingly large population. |
