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  • I look around at the Career Tributes who are showing off, clearly trying to intimidate the field.†   (source)
  • Doing my best to hide the intimidation I felt, I rolled my eyes and said, "Whatever, man."†   (source)
  • There are two policemen by the front office—they actually seem intimidated by the mob of kids flowing past them and out the front doors of the school.†   (source)
  • Looking at the bobbing head of the mighty Don Lash, Louie felt intimidated.†   (source)
  • Worse, Roy was truly intimidated.†   (source)
  • I was bored, and also intimidated.†   (source)
  • Osip had been somewhat intimidated by its length, but the Count had assured him that there was no better text with which to establish a fundamental understanding of American culture.†   (source)
  • Though there were rare geniuses walking the halls of the law school, most of my fellow students were smart but not intimidatingly so.†   (source)
  • A clumsy display, but still intimidating.†   (source)
  • She had this intimidating image—this don't-mess-with-me attitude.†   (source)
  • "...definitely intimidating," I finally say.†   (source)
  • Hediger (1950) says, "When two creatures meet, the one that is able to intimidate its opponent is recognized as socially superior, so that a social decision does not always depend on a fight; an encounter in some circumstances may be enough."†   (source)
  • She remembered how intimidating the building had seemed.†   (source)
  • At the time, Harvard Law School was a pretty intimidating place, especially for a twenty-one-year-old.†   (source)
  • There was looting, murder, and, increasingly, rape, which was used to intimidate civilians and reward militiamen.†   (source)
  • They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.†   (source)
  • Thomas surprisingly didn't feel that intimidated.†   (source)
  • Sophie looked equally intimidated as her eyes scanned the lobby.†   (source)
  • Her entrance was meant to inspire intimidation.†   (source)
  • Nick could hit and hurt and intimidate, but Mo pointed him at the people who needed to be intimidated.†   (source)
  • To some people, this might have looked like a gesture of welcome, but Harry knew it was because Uncle Vernon wanted to look impressive and intimidating.†   (source)
  • When you dance fast and dirty, it intimidates some of them.†   (source)
  • Adults didn't intimidate her, and neither did strangers of any age.†   (source)
  • Even though she was a full foot shorter than I was, she still managed to be intimidating.†   (source)
  • Pete, I suppose much intimidated by the thought of the jokes that he would have to endure at the feedstore and all over town, changed after that.†   (source)
  • Victor seemed more intent on intimidating Gino than he was on getting the ball.†   (source)
  • But he was only thinking of Sticky to take his mind off himself, for the prospect of groping about in the darkness intimidated him more than he cared to admit.†   (source)
  • The building was square and rather plain-looking, though once inside, the three orphans were intimidated by the hustle and bustle of the people as they raced around the large, echoey room.†   (source)
  • Scared and confused, and visibly intimidated by Annie, he was soon walking down the steps, and across the lawn, dodging revelers.†   (source)
  • A lot of young kids get intimidated when the surf starts getting huge.†   (source)
  • The intimidating sink was so dirty I chose not to touch the faucets—so I couldn't wash my hands.†   (source)
  • Another tactic meant to confuse and intimidate her.†   (source)
  • 1 shouldn't be intimidated.†   (source)
  • There was a reason it was up so high in a courtroom-it had nothing to do with logistics and everything to do with intimidation.†   (source)
  • He of course saw nothing the slightest bit intimidating about it.†   (source)
  • It's breathtaking, intimidating, magnificent—and this is just the summer house.†   (source)
  • Most ignored him and kept going, some laughed at him, but a few were intimidated by his rank and had stopped, though he lacked any personal authority.†   (source)
  • It doesn't look nearly as big or intimidating as I've been imagining.†   (source)
  • If, instead of trying to intimidate your young brother, you would emulate him and use that mind of yours, perhaps you'd find things much easier.†   (source)
  • But I've learned you can't go too far wrong in the kitchen, and people are more intimidated than they should be, probably because we watch cooking shows on TV that make cooking look like rocket science.†   (source)
  • She remembered that it had been a problem at times, especially when she dated, because it had intimidated most of the boys her age.†   (source)
  • She perched against the edge of the counter, diminishing her height so she was eye level, but she still seemed intimidating with her folded arms and unimpressed scowl.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it seems the whole process is designed to be as intimidating and confusing as possible.†   (source)
  • Trying not to be intimidated by the fierce domineering look he got from her, he ordered the soldiers to inspect the ranch.†   (source)
  • He was intimidated by this uniformed superiority and the offhand authority in Merridew's voice.†   (source)
  • The intimidating figure stared down at me with disdain, as if I were less than a piece of lint on his coat.†   (source)
  • Judith was not so easily intimidated.†   (source)
  • You think you can intimidate me with your swanlike good looks, but I'm not that kind of girl.†   (source)
  • Rameck yelled in his loudest, most intimidating voice.†   (source)
  • Besides—it gladdened my heart to think of it —if anyone alive could high-hand or intimidate Lucius Reeve it was Platt: a world-class snob and bully in his own right.†   (source)
  • It was Bean, not intimidated at all, who answered intelligently.†   (source)
  • I want to, but I'm too intimidated to look at the people around me.†   (source)
  • Bandits long ago intimidated any La Arrocera residents who considered testifying.†   (source)
  • The other students, particularly the boys, were intimidated by Rahel's waywardness and almost fierce lack of ambition.†   (source)
  • If its attorneys do not outsmart you, they will outwork you, and if they can't outwork you, they'll win through sheer intimidation.†   (source)
  • But the professors were not so easily intimidated.†   (source)
  • He used them to intimidate people.†   (source)
  • A leaden band of mist gathered in front of the Urgals and thickened into an intimidating wall, dark as a thunderhead.†   (source)
  • Do guys find you too intimidating?†   (source)
  • I would have written it while he looked, but his clear, elegant script intimidated me.†   (source)
  • Probably I would have felt so intimidated, I couldn't have done much more than tremble in her presence.†   (source)
  • It was Kim who must have braved any number of intimidating bouncers and hipsters to find Adam.†   (source)
  • It was more than just big; it was intimidating.†   (source)
  • Here they were being frightened and intimidated and held at bay by, of all things, a dog.†   (source)
  • I was tight-lipped and grim, and, after the events of the last several days, not terribly intimidated by the authority of two paunchy old men.†   (source)
  • The book was in novel form, short enough not to intimidate the potential buyer at Food Mart checkout stands, and the cover was a twenty-second interactive holo wherein the tall, swarthy stranger-Amalfi Schwartz, I suppose, although Amalfi was short and pale and wore corrective lensesrips the bodice of the struggling female just to the nipple line before the protesting blonde turns toward the viewer and cries for help in a breathless whisper provided by porn holie star Leeda Swann.†   (source)
  • Cokie and Dina made sure the Sangra girls were intimidating and feared.†   (source)
  • The timbre of his bark had deepened to an intimidating boom.†   (source)
  • Thanks to Hollywood, the monster looks like Boris Karloff or Lon Chaney and intimidates us by its sheer physical menace.†   (source)
  • Up close, they seemed much less intimidating.†   (source)
  • Men occasionally stopped by our gate to have a chat with her: most women would have been intimidated and embarrassed, talking to men other than their own husbands, but not our niang.†   (source)
  • He seemed completely intimidated by authority.†   (source)
  • Up close he is physically intimidating, tall and broad-shouldered, his arms and chest well defined.†   (source)
  • She knew that she couldn't rule the queendom by fear and intimidation alone.†   (source)
  • Saeed did not like to admit it but he was intimidated by her, by her intensity and by the speed and unpredictability of her words, words that he often could not understand, but words that made others laugh.†   (source)
  • The Lunae Libri was more intimidating than I had imagined.†   (source)
  • The place was intimidating: names on the wall, gigantic indoor pool, mock door of an H-3 helicopter, and SAR instructors in their shorts and blue T-shirts.†   (source)
  • And if I didn't have many other friends because of her-most girls were intimidated by her looks, or thought she was too pushy, or just flat-out feared for their boyfriends-it never bothered me.†   (source)
  • In Georgia I'd seen people angered by my father before, or intimidated, but not contemptuous.†   (source)
  • I know a few never showed up at all, mostly through sheer intimidation.†   (source)
  • Even without the fair he faced an intimidating portfolio of works in progress, chief among them the grounds of Biltmore, the Vanderbilt estate in North Carolina.†   (source)
  • On the fourth floor at Juilliard, Russo was intimidated by the quality of the music emanating from the little pressure cookers where students practiced between classes.†   (source)
  • The Americans had been careful to have each meeting videotaped so that later accusations of intimidation could be refuted at once.†   (source)
  • Bien wasn't intimidated, and he didn't care about rules.†   (source)
  • Rebeca and Amaranta, serving the table, were intimidated by the way in which the angelic man with pale and ringless hands manipulated the utensils.†   (source)
  • Looking back, since he was the one with the training, I'm not sure why I was the one speaking, but I remember being pretty intimidated, seeing those kids looking at me as I stood there totally mute for what felt like a very long moment.†   (source)
  • I was surprised not to feel intimidated as badly as I used to.†   (source)
  • He ought to file a police report for animal cruelty, possibly intimidation, but he did not think he would want to explain why the intimidation had taken place.†   (source)
  • I set the document down on the edge of the table and looked over the top of my reading glasses with my most intimidating courtroom stare.†   (source)
  • Out in the sunlight, he was far less intimidating than he had been in the shade.†   (source)
  • Though Agapi was a psychiatrist, she didn't come across as intimidating.†   (source)
  • Decked out in khaki shirts and brown beret hats, their shoes polished to a smooth military sheen, they stood over by the exit doors intimidating anyone who happened to walk into their space.†   (source)
  • To intimidate us.†   (source)
  • Or even just filling up a tank of gas alone was intimidating at first.†   (source)
  • Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom.†   (source)
  • The whole thing was too close to us, too real, and too intimidating to let on that we even knew about it.†   (source)
  • But I refused to let Patch think he could intimidate or scare me.†   (source)
  • The workers' comp claim forms look intimidating, especially to people who don't speak any English and can't read any language.†   (source)
  • "I would suggest you refrain from using that tone with me," she said in the least intimidating voice imaginable.†   (source)
  • I praised the response as "magnificent" to the press, lauding our people for "defying unprecedented intimidation by the state."†   (source)
  • He adjusted his behavior to it, chose his companions on the basis of it: people who could be fascinated, even intimidated by it.†   (source)
  • And Ruchira can be every bit as intimidating as any brothel owner.†   (source)
  • And I imagined it would be intimidating for any guy (vamp or human) to try to date one of the Twins.†   (source)
  • "I know this all seems strange and intimidating and, yes, unfair, but we're here for a reason," he told the crowd.†   (source)
  • The drop to the catwalk was intimidating, but not as intimidating as the idea of waiting in the storage space for whatever came to claim them.†   (source)
  • To intimidate you, confuse you, frighten you.†   (source)
  • "It's a lovely mine," apologized the Humbug, who was always intimidated by loud noises.†   (source)
  • He listened to her, always seemed a little intimidated by her, even awed.†   (source)
  • Intimidating.†   (source)
  • Nye, whose normal voice is cuttingly nasal and naturally intimidating, was attempting a subdued timbre, a disarming, throw-away style.†   (source)
  • Lorraine sat in a corner, holding one drink all night and looking so intimidated by the people who approached her that she killed even the most persistent attempts at conversation.†   (source)
  • The Irishmen were so intimidated that they were always the last ones in line.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be intimidation.†   (source)
  • "Shove off," Felicity growls, deliberately using bad language to intimidate her.†   (source)
  • In the way of those thirsty for power above all else, he intimidated, terrorized, punished, banished, and used as his visible weapon, the wrath of his chosen god.†   (source)
  • The early Klan did its work through pamphleteering, lynching, shooting, burning, castrating, pistol-whipping, and a thousand forms of intimidation.†   (source)
  • I was thoroughly intimidated.†   (source)
  • That Zayd gets straight A's and has pretty fair musical tastes doesn't intimidate Cedric anymore.†   (source)
  • I saw that Mr. Pritchard was intimidated by his father's piercing stare.†   (source)
  • Most candidates admit being a little awestruck and a tad intimidated when they first encounter the jaw-dropping male specimens who show up for BUD/S to strut their stuff.†   (source)
  • So far no one had threatened me with anything more intimidating than a scowl or a harsh word, and no other prisoner had asked anything of me.†   (source)
  • I wince at his handshake, wondering if my own will ever be as intimidating.†   (source)
  • We walked quickly, intimidated by the hubbub of the bustling city, not knowing which direction to go My heart pounded with fear.†   (source)
  • He was not intimidated by his change of venue.†   (source)
  • "To intimidate us," Max replied simply.†   (source)
  • Part of the reason was that I felt enormously intimidated in front of other people.†   (source)
  • Nothing and no one ever seemed to intimidate him.†   (source)
  • Reed, it appears, was indeed intimidated.†   (source)
  • He breezed along beautifully, even emulating certain characteristic mispronunciations of General Dreedle's, and he was not the least bit intimidated by General Peckem's new colonel until he suddenly recalled that General Peckem detested General Dreedle.†   (source)
  • And calling Jean Hoerni, the one person who might be able to fund his return, seemed too intimidating to seriously consider.†   (source)
  • Mike was a prototypic "big brother," a tough and fearless warrior who led by example, not by intimidation.†   (source)
  • Clearly, intimidation didn't work.†   (source)
  • The scope of the large auditorium was at once intimidating and spectacular.†   (source)
  • I had learned to call her Auntie to her face, but in my mind she was always the intimidating Madame Wang.†   (source)
  • That could be really intimidating, you know, for a guy.†   (source)
  • She's not intimidated by the popular kids or the ones with the rich parents, and she doesn't want to be your friend.†   (source)
  • Even hog-tied and wingless, he sure could give an intimidating look.†   (source)
  • And me sitting here while he tries to intimidate me.†   (source)
  • I had a brief glimpse of astonished, then angry faces, and, with another raspy, croaky roar, not nearly as intimidating as I'd hoped, I leaped up shakily.†   (source)
  • Those from other universities, such as Chicago and UCLA, had occasionally been published, but these were considered within the military establishment to be "trial balloons"—examples of ongoing research intended to intimidate foreign observers.†   (source)
  • Besides, whilst the Knight of Lemonwood might intimidate a petty lord, he did not have the strength to sway the Prince of Dome.†   (source)
  • And military personnel lower in rank could have their legal counsel argue that you had intimidated their clients by shoving your rank in their face.†   (source)
  • The place is pretty intimidating.†   (source)
  • "It's a freak show kegger," he whispered, winking to show he hadn't been totally intimidated.†   (source)
  • She wasn't trying to intimidate me either.†   (source)
  • They appeared like an over-the-hill gang, but when they took the field and tossed a ball around, the ease with which they practiced clearly intimidated the Little Leaguers.†   (source)
  • Regis had never been intimidated by the spokesmen before because normally he had nothing to say at council.†   (source)
  • Hassan the Assassin was the oldest man in our class and looked like something a fisherman had let out of a bottle, while Birdie wasn't much bigger than a sparrow and about as intimidating.†   (source)
  • The first time I went tango dancing I was too intimidated to get out on the floor.†   (source)
  • She was competent, decisive, self-reliant; perhaps she intimidated them, for before long they drifted their attentions elsewhere.†   (source)
  • They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated."†   (source)
  • Executives have been either intimidated or seduced by the legislature that is paying their salary.†   (source)
  • Maynard was one of the most intimidating, dangerous men I'd ever had the displeasure of defending.†   (source)
  • They seemed less intimidating, particularly the youngest, a plain girl with bedsprings of bright orange hair.†   (source)
  • Why don't you berate and intimidate them?†   (source)
  • Intimidating?†   (source)
  • He was not smiling and his approach still intimidated me.†   (source)
  • No matter what alpha-male act I might pull off in trying to intimidate her, I knew the truth.†   (source)
  • The crowd started yelling all around me, and I felt sort of intimidated by it.†   (source)
  • The thing about Badass Finch is that guys like Ryan Cross don't intimidate him for long.†   (source)
  • In a voice heavy with anger he held it at arm's length and read: "The calculated lack of respect for law and order in Mississippi has made it a veritable jungle of intimidation, terrorism and brutality where only the fittest survive.†   (source)
  • The first page of the legal pad, its blankness still intimidating, yawned in front of me like a yellowish glimpse of eternity.†   (source)
  • You're not goin' to intimidate me.†   (source)
  • Just as she was intimidated by expensive food and by the night life of the capital, so she was later intimidated by Komarov-sky himself-this was the real explanation of everything.†   (source)
  • I am not so sure, after nearly ten years of living and working in the midst of "successful democratic politicians," that they are all "insecure and intimidated men."†   (source)
  • You can bribe, blackmail, intimidate...bless, dazzle, fascinate.†   (source)
  • The gang intimidates everyone in the neighborhood and collects protection money from storekeepers.
  • I was barely sixteen years old and a little bit intimidated by this ballsy chick, but I'd said why not.†   (source)
    intimidated = fearful or threatened
  • The giant dudes edged away from him, intimidated by his star power.†   (source)
  • I might have been too intimidated to ask you to go sailing.†   (source)
  • He can be really intimidating when he wants to be.†   (source)
  • She was intimidated by the sleeping house that wasn't her house.†   (source)
  • "He doesn't seem intimidating at all," Klaus interrupted.†   (source)
  • She focused on Leo because he was the least intimidating.†   (source)
  • Apparently the man who Harry was impersonating, Runcorn, was intimidating.†   (source)
  • I cleared the table quickly while Edward organized an intimidating stack of forms.†   (source)
  • The Orleans Parish courthouse is a massive structure with intimidating architecture.†   (source)
  • "Would you really have been intimidated?" she asked sheepishly.†   (source)
  • I was from the Bronx, after all, maybe these country jokers were intimidated.†   (source)
  • Emmett and Jasper were intimidating and flawless in classic tuxedos.†   (source)
  • However intimidated, she felt she could not look away.†   (source)
  • If you are not used to that sort of give-and-take, New York ATC can be very, very intimidating.†   (source)
  • We were not shooting, but we were very intimidating, no doubt about that.†   (source)
  • His height and the way he has me blocked in are intimidating, but in a very good way.†   (source)
  • Baby Kochamma was a little intimidated by Rahel's quietness.†   (source)
  • I wasn't going to be intimidated and turn away first, so I stared back.†   (source)
  • Your wife isn't a bit intimidated by the idea?†   (source)
  • The makeup and the dress were a lot more intimidating than the dagger.†   (source)
  • It's intimidating and reassuring at the same time.†   (source)
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