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Cliff Huddle (Billy Zane, enjoying another bad-guy turn) is nicknamed the Prince of Darkness, but he's less pure evil than just kind of intimidatingly direct.

From Inside the Box 2010

This is where we come in, the pros you see seated behind the tables in the hotel conference rooms, facing the serried ranks of either depressingly empty or intimidatingly full chairs set out in rows before us.

Pros at Cons at SF Novelists 2010

Saturday at Wembley Stadium in London, when they take on Manchester United in one of the most anticipated professional soccer games in years, Barcelona's players will demonstrate—for an intimidatingly massive global audience—an offense that has become soccer's platonic ideal.

A Track Team That Also Plays Soccer Matthew Futterman 2011

But it's worth remembering that, barely a century ago, the great male fear was not of alpha females with intimidatingly large salaries but their polar opposite: women were seen, rather like immigrant labour now, as dangerously liable to undercut men's wages by doing the same work for less.

Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff 2011

Another southern writer is the often intimidatingly brilliant William Faulkner.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Reading shapes writers 2009

Partisans are very good at recognizing disarray and incompetence on their side of the aisle, but they tend to think the other side is intimidatingly capable and unburdened by scruples or normal human vulnerabilities.

Washington is bad at scheming 2011

In it sleep a charming lady and her intimidatingly elegant mother.

Hobart and Happiness karenhealey 2010

Exploring such intimidatingly solitary, sad spaces must only enhance the player's sense of attachment to a companion.

Archive 2009-06-01 SVGL 2009

Michael, in Steward's arms, was snarling and growling intimidatingly, not merely at the cow whale but at all the hostile and menacing universe that had thrown panic into the two-legged gods of his floating world.

CHAPTER XV 2010

Exploring such intimidatingly solitary, sad spaces must only enhance the player's sense of attachment to a companion.

The Mysterious Appeal Of Ueda's Worlds SVGL 2009