forbiddingly in a sentence

Examples

1. None of the pieces are forbiddingly academic, but they are almost invariably thoughtful and well-written, and the book is worth reading even if you don't care all that much about science fiction.
2. The courts typically interpret that measurement very forbiddingly, so _ worst-case but not just hypothetically _ an array of state laws could be put at risk : childhood immunizations, compulsory education, child labor rules.
3. His new work of synthesis is called, a little forbiddingly, " Consilience, " a word coined by the 19th century philosopher of science William Whewell to mean the melding of inferences drawn from separate subjects.
4. The William R . Heath house, built for a Larkin vice president, strikes me as forbiddingly fortress-like, especially when compared with the Robie House in Chicago, for which it was a kind of prototype.
5. Stages 8 and 9 sit next to each other and are home to Dr . Phlox's sickbay, the mess hall and various quarters and corridors, as well as a room filled forbiddingly with alien corpses strung upside down.
6. Al Pacino, an unlikely Mr . Chips, set out to invigorate " Richard III " in ways that would communicate his abiding love of Shakespeare and entice lay audiences to explore the Machiavellian twists of this forbiddingly knotty play.
7. "Even if Bhabha's work is forbiddingly opaque, we should make no mistake that he is describing actual social phenomena in the colonial and postcolonial world, " said Michael Berube, an English professor at Pennsylvania State University.
8. The metal detector stands forbiddingly on the seventh floor of the Edward Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles, a machine so touchy, so annoyingly sensitive, that people often must remove their steel-shanked shoes to finally gain passage into Courtroom 790.
9. McKinnell quoted a senior executive as objecting in 1943 that the mold in question was " as temperamental as an opera singer, " that its yields were forbiddingly low and isolation as difficult as its extraction, and that " the purification process itself invites disaster ."
10. Despite the forbiddingly technical and " arid " appearance of the doctrines ascribed to Archestratus, Andrew Barker has argued that in fact " they engage with issues of real significance to musicians, and to anyone seeking to understand the resources and strategies of melodic composition ."