| 单词 | forbiddingly |
| 例句 | Though not as mean, as forbiddingly “criminal,” as the eyes of Hickock, Richard Eugene. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The neighborly market I used to cruise for produce now looks forbiddingly like a Manhattan yuppie emporium. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They mounted, and soon they were riding off into the mist, which seemed to open reluctantly before them and close forbiddingly behind them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The type is perhaps forbiddingly tight, the illustrations are small and detailed, and the humor and situations may shock American kids with delicate sensibilities. Brief Tales for New Readers and Little Listeners From Philip Stead and More 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z The result of that night was one of Freud’s earliest works, the forbiddingly titled “Project for a Scientific Psychology.” Review | A brain researcher on what Freud got right 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Saturday’s performance brought out the humor and charm in a work that can sometimes feel forbiddingly recondite or merely meditative. Flourishes From Denmark, Stockhausen’s ‘Stimmung’ and Marc-André Hamelin 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Flailing youth befuddled and intimidated by a forbiddingly complex world is a theme that seeps into the bloodstream of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, which begins its 13th edition on Wednesday in Lower Manhattan theaters. Critic’s Notebook: The Tribeca Film Festival Begins Its 13th Season 2014-04-15T16:18:57Z For evidence, look no further than “Sweeney Todd,” “Fun Home” and “Hamilton,” three great shows of forbiddingly unlikely origin. Review: Tackling a Major Taboo in ‘The Boy Who Danced on Air’ 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z There are some other vivid characters, notably Jean-Michel Wilmotte, an imperious French designer who falls asleep in a meeting and proposes a forbiddingly dark color scheme for the gallery walls. Movie Review: ‘The New Rijksmuseum,’ a Documentary by Oeke Hoogendijk 2013-12-17T22:38:17Z None of those terms overstate the case, but they do prepare readers new to Levi for a forbiddingly educative experience, making him a writer unlike all others, and the experience of reading him a chore. Howard Jacobson: rereading If This Is a Man by Primo Levi 2013-04-05T07:10:39Z And when Giuseppe misses school and is absent from his forbiddingly shuttered home, Luna refuses to abandon a search that the villagers seem strangely unwilling to pursue. ‘Sicilian Ghost Story’ Review: Fairy-Tale Love Meets Real-Life Crime 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The physics that Kaplan and his colleagues practice is forbiddingly complex, comprehensible to most of the people in the film and to very few outside it. ‘Particle Fever’: Scientific endeavor is no small matter 2014-03-13T20:15:13Z That may sound forbiddingly cerebral, like the kind of high-concept aesthetic undertaking that tends to be more interesting in theory than in practice. One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z There Ms. Suzuki preps the desserts, which include shave ice sluiced with condensed milk and loaded with strawberries cooked down with sugar until Ferrari red and forbiddingly sweet. Hungry City: Brooklyn Ball Factory in East Williamsburg 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z It also helps that she is forbiddingly tall, with an abundant mane and the ability to move swiftly in stilettos. Fashion’s New Order 2012-09-07T20:36:32Z He says that selections like “Gabriel” and “Five Star,” both world premieres, are engrossing looks at “flailing youth befuddled and intimidated by a forbiddingly complex world.” ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: New York Via Park City or Berlin 2014-04-16T19:13:45Z As these two drift through forbiddingly quiet forests, sparsely populated towns and eerily empty homes, Affleck’s camera takes in the desolate, dead-end majesty of this shattered world. ‘Light of My Life’ Review: Together at the End of the World 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Maybe none of this sounds forbiddingly austere, but if it does, consider the many points of intersection that “A Man Escaped” has with “Escape From Alcatraz,” one of the top-grossing movies of 1979. Want to Try a Robert Bresson Film? Look to Clint Eastwood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Throughout his career, Mr. Hill was considered forbiddingly intellectual and exuded the air, even in appearance, of an Old Testament prophet. Geoffrey Hill, often hailed as Britain’s greatest poet, dies at 84 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Quietly unprepossessing in person, Ms. Lenk onstage projects a slightly opaque sensuality that does not feel forbiddingly aloof but warm and intriguing. Katrina Lenk Can Quietly Break Your Heart 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The production is forbiddingly spare and unfolds on a minimal monochrome set, from Vicki Mortimer, that eerily evokes a mausoleum. A Studio Ghibli Classic Comes to the London Stage 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Staccato passages were forbiddingly crisp, and shifts from ornamental passages back to the melody strongly emphasized. Music Review: Back at the Keyboard After a Difficult Interlude 2011-02-01T21:43:30Z It’s based on a battery of interviews, including nearly 200 alone with Balanchine’s former dancers, whom as a group Homans refers to as “unusually eccentric and fascinating” and “forbiddingly tight-knit.” A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Certainly, the script is as forbiddingly fatalistic as that of a Greek tragedy. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The Beethoven is spiky, its moods forbiddingly changeable. Music Review: At Mozart Festival, Dvorak and Others Shine 2011-08-08T21:55:50Z Job, in contrast, registers as almost forbiddingly responsible. Theater Review: ‘Job,’ at the Flea Theater 2012-09-20T02:00:00Z Her presence tells us that though the plot of our story might seem forbiddingly dark, life doesn’t typically follow the neat pattern of tragedy. Why Hillary Clinton's next big stage should be at the Tony Awards 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Each buzzes with a light energy that masks the quiet sickness slowly taking hold of the hero until the situation in the final episode, forbiddingly titled "Terminus," makes it impossible to conceal. As "Endeavour" approaches the end of its run, more of us should appreciate its mystery 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z If this makes the film's brow seem forbiddingly high, don't worry: it soon slips. Patrick Keiller on London: read the original interview 2012-11-30T15:00:00Z In 20th-century fiction, wedding bells tolled as forbiddingly, with a plethora of disgruntled husbands yearning to ditch capitalist conformity and hit the road. Marriage Is a Mess in ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Inside the Sheriff's Department, where veteran investigators know that three-decade-old cases are forbiddingly hard even when they involved noncelebrity players, some officials were trying to privately reduce expectation. Review of Natalie Wood's death ignites curiosity 2011-11-19T05:26:17Z Weaver is forbiddingly grim and focused as Matheson, and Murphy is the personification of haunted unease as her colleague. 'Red Lights': Paranormal sleuths meet worst nightmare 2012-08-10T00:01:04Z They found sponsors and benefited from grants from a foundation established by Michael Weiss, a former U.S. champion who helps fund skaters in a forbiddingly expensive sport. Column: Nathan Chen's fire still burns thanks to his mother and others who inspire him 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z As a forbiddingly deep drought reclaims its hold on California, the state’s record precipitation in October and December is already a distant memory, and the list of urgent water issues we face keeps getting longer. Op-Ed: Forget December's snowstorms. California isn't doing enough to address its hot, dry reality 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z "They have made the accounting seem so forbiddingly complicated and technical that higher level negotiators in the party delegations just leave it to them." The controversy of wood pellets as a green energy source 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z He really hates the serve-or-die choice imposed on him by Waller, and in an early scene where he confronts her face-to-face, the two actors are forbiddingly ferocious and the screen incandesces. ‘The Suicide Squad’ review: New supervillains add to the bloody-minded fun 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z This creates a forbiddingly high bar for dismissal and makes it easier for misconduct-prone officers to stay on the force or to wander from department to department. Opinion | Police reform is not enough. We need to rethink public safety. “The world looks forbiddingly difficult to break into today,” he continued. How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z On set, Kaufman helped steer Buckley and Plemons through a series of forbiddingly long scenes involving twisting, often cerebral and philosophical dialogue, with single takes sometimes stretching on for 25 minutes. How Charlie Kaufman made the summer's most mind-bending film 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The nation can’t wait until the backlog of classified information becomes so forbiddingly large that no one will ever be able to process it. The government’s ‘unsustainable’ avalanche of secrets - The Washington Post 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z For actors, the challenge involves excavating what initially seems forbiddingly unfamiliar speech and behaviour. Sex, money and idiots in power: Restoration comedy's endless appeal 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z The idea may sound forbiddingly technical, and it’s rather absurd that a humdrum capital function like share buybacks has a become a progressive fetish. A lesson for the Democratic left from Adam Smith 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z For those who want to make a home here, the entry barrier is set forbiddingly high. Kevin Spacey case brings attention to Nantucket – where many go to avoid spotlight 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z There Benjamin sought to explore the frontiers of a new musical language, devising forbiddingly complex sonic architectural structures to substitute for such traditional forms as the sonata. How the Composer George Benjamin Finally Found His Voice 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Once a backwater of offices and antique shops, the street has been transformed since the mid-2000s into a canyon of forbiddingly exclusive boutiques, selling designer clothes and leather goods. How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1% 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Scientists proffered ideas, nearly all involving making the plutonium forbiddingly dangerous for malefactors to transport and burying it deep underground. America's nuclear headache: old plutonium with nowhere to go 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z At least he appeared so next to a forbiddingly colossal sidekick he referred to only as “my driver.” Railbirds Are All the Same, Even Long-Lost Russian Counts 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z America’s political dysfunction looks forbiddingly irreparable, its government implacably hostile to expertise. How America’s economy is rigged by special interests 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z In this forbiddingly grim entry in the franchise, Andy Serkis, playing the leader of the simian resistance, again proves that in the highly specialized realm of performance-capture acting, he has no peer. 3 movies open July 14; here’s how they rate 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Set two years after the events of “Dawn,” “War” is forbiddingly grim, the darkest entry in the “Apes” franchise by far. ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ review: Andy Serkis is riveting in grimmest battle by far 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Congested and forbiddingly expensive, it is a region choking on its own success. ‘We Almost Have Riots’: Tensions Flare in Silicon Valley Over Growth 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Moreover, enforcement may prove forbiddingly difficult since a Negro who is refused housing because of his race must first appeal to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, then file suit in the courts. Trump's 1973 Discrimination Case Was Part of Larger Case 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Muniz, who divides his time between Rio de Janerio and New York, is planning the next works, which may prove “forbiddingly” costly to make: Gustav Klimt’s Kiss and Edvard Munch’s The Scream. Revealed: the unseen flip-sides of the world's most famous paintings 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The smugglers did not warn them about the forbiddingly tall fence — or about the heavy police presence on the other side. Europe’s new border fences are derailing migrants, but not stopping them 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Technically unreliable and forbiddingly expensive, colour was regarded by serious photographers as a vulgar novelty, the medium of oversaturated advertising hoardings and gaudy magazines. Made in Manhattan: how Saul Leiter found beauty in Gotham’s glass and grime 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z I turned up a number of forbiddingly impersonal and expensive proxy services before seeking direction from nerds on sneaker forums. My Man in Japan 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z But the work is going to be forbiddingly expensive, and it requires the participation of numerous stakeholders, many of whom wield effective veto power if they choose not to cooperate. Jane Goodall Is Still Wild at Heart 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z But the massive touch screens were forbiddingly expensive, with costs running upwards of $80,000. Microsoft Wants To End Awful Business Meetings With This Massive Touchscreen 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Buyers were allowed to customize their bikes online and install lucrative add-ons at the factory rather than at motorcycle dealerships, often perceived as forbiddingly clannish. Analysis: As boomers age, Harley hunts for younger riders 2013-06-21T12:05:07Z “Be good,” the man monitoring them would utter forbiddingly when one of them seemed to get a little riled up. How Chicago’s Housing Crisis Ignited a New Form of Activism 2013-05-29T11:00:52Z The two volumes by Dr. Knapp are forbiddingly dense with documentary minutiæ, yet it is a pleasure to loaf through them at least once. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z I grunted forbiddingly, and turned my back upon M'Cabe, as far as it is possible to do so on an outside car, and we hammered on through the darkness. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z To outsiders, the al-Saud ruling family's succession process often appears forbiddingly opaque. Analysis: Saudi king's surgery points to succession plans 2011-10-18T13:37:00Z The forbiddingly titled “Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences,” published in 1881, was Edgeworth’s best-known work. Keynes and Hayek, the Great Debate (Part 1): Nicholas Wapshott 2011-10-06T00:22:03Z "So was I," Manister said dryly, but, by an effort, not forbiddingly, so that the captain saw no harm in raising his glass. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z But there were the days when it was forbiddingly frosty. Seahawk Brandon Browner's long exile in Canada is over 2011-09-05T02:30:05Z She felt all lit up and bright inside, while Ingram, on the contrary, looked forbiddingly solemn. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z The long, dark shadows on the river were interspersed with flecks of shapeless mist, which fancy shaped to spirit forms, and ghostly arms outstretched to beckon or to wave forbiddingly. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z Jean François raised his hand in protest, shaking his head forbiddingly. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z She said most particular that she was not to see any one to-day; but—" Sheila frowned at me forbiddingly, "you sit down an' wait a minute, sir, an' I'll do me best. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z "It's out of the question," I said, looking forbiddingly at Mrs. Moloney through the spokes of the bicycle that I was pumping up outside the grocer's in Skebawn. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z Milton writes, somewhat more forbiddingly, of "Strict age and sour severity With their grave saws." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Beyond the circle of firelight the shadows of the forest gloomed forbiddingly. Stranded in Arcady So, I thought swiftly, perhaps the best way of avoiding this fuss is to go quietly—but forbiddingly—to have tea. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune Returning to the roadster the dark passage seemed forbiddingly dangerous. Penny Nichols Finds a Clue The unlighted house, like a thing dead itself and surrendered to decay, arose before them forbiddingly. The Gray Mask There was a rapid movement at his sides, a mere flash of light, and two heavy six-shooters appeared suddenly in his hands and lay there, unaimed, but forbiddingly ready. The Coming of the Law He reached the hut, whistling up to the very door, and then his breath failed him on a note, the place looked so forbiddingly black in the shadow, the woods were so still. Old Crow It was high and narrow and forbiddingly dark. Master of the Moondog The walls of the tiny room seemed to rise forbiddingly around her, to come closer, to begin to topple over as if in ruin. Coquette And throwing the spurs into Bat Wings he loped rapidly toward the summit, scowling forbiddingly in passing at a small boy who was shepherding the stray herd. Hidden Water I scowled forbiddingly as I heard Correy open the door; at least I could make her very sorry she had selected the Ertak for her adventure. Priestess of the Flame It was summer, but a cold rain was falling forbiddingly without. Imaginary Interviews In the distance, the dark shapes 135 of the mountains stood out forbiddingly in the moonlight. Across the Mesa She forbiddingly moved the shade of the lamp about a tenth of an inch. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Joan was hardly in the mood to pay much attention to her future prospects; the present loomed too forbiddingly ahead of her. To Love Without looking up, she waved one hand forbiddingly; and Robbie Belle obediently shut her mouth over the few words that were ready to be uttered in greeting. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls A forbiddingly suitable place for its purpose it was. The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Others had a forbiddingly fierce aspect with their three enceintes still visible, their loopholes under the staircase, and their high turrets with pointed sides. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life “But what right you have to cross-question me, I don’t know!” commented Mrs. Daniver, addressing a passing sea-gull, and pulling down the corners of her mouth most forbiddingly. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive He seems frank," he said forbiddingly, "and we can lose nothing. The Pirates of Ersatz Neither did you anticipate encountering such a forbiddingly empty house. The Paternoster Ruby Alas! the train was in full motion; a porter was standing forbiddingly between me and my carriage, and the honeymoon couple were blandly drawing down the blinds in my very face! Boycotted And Other Stories "Let's go boldly up and offer to buy the slaves," I suggested; but Louis' grip tightened forbiddingly and Little Fellow's forefinger pointed towards a big creature, who was ordering the others about. Lords of the North The old mountain which frowned so forbiddingly down upon the camp across the lake was very docile when taken from behind. Tom Slade's Double Dare He left his pigeon-hole unshuttered, and to Lucas, while he waited, it seemed that several men came to it and glanced at him forbiddingly. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories We felt forbiddingly calm and superior when now and then some strange city people from Grover, the large summer resort six miles from us, travelled up and down our main street seeking board in vain. The Jamesons He paused for both breath and words—pondered with bended head, knitting his brows forbiddingly. The Day of Days An Extravaganza Though he saw at a glance that she looked grave, he went forward to kiss her, but she rose and, stepping behind the table, put out her hand forbiddingly. Unleavened Bread Taking a look over their shoulders to make sure they had not been followed, they went boldly up the steps and stood against the huge black door that fronted them forbiddingly. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories My intention was to swim across, but the current was swift, the water forbiddingly dark and cold. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Its face is yellowish white; the cheeks are fallen in, the temples sunken, too, with sharp ridges about them, making the forehead forbiddingly narrow; the upper lip, slightly lifted, shows the white teeth, rigidly clenched. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Mr. Haim did open the door, started at the apparition of George, and stood defensively and forbiddingly in the very centre of the doorway. The Roll-Call He scowled forbiddingly at me, he scrutinized the other customer, craning sideways to survey him in the mirror, he looked about the shop and he stared inquisitively at the parlor door. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta At this moment Markham desired anything but commotion, so he chirped to the animal and stroke on, his head bent, his gaze on the portal of the ancien, which, as he noted, was forbiddingly closed. Madcap Depressing the clutch pedal, he negotiated the frozen thoroughfare and parked his car in the lee of the enormous Union Station, which bulked forbiddingly in the December midnight. Midnight She shook her head forbiddingly, but she still smiled. Tono Bungay I caught her to my heart, in a rapture of tenderness, and the evening that had begun for us so forbiddingly ended in a happiness such as not even our love had known before. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance I could not retreat to the house of the Wolf that loomed forbiddingly behind me. Blindfolded A mile and a half back and a bit off the road lay the narrow, sheltered flat between two forbiddingly barren ridges which Hu Dra, the gardener, had converted into an oasis. Tropic Days The houses, set well back from the street, were dark, forbiddingly dark. Midnight The Warden introduced him, as an American diplomatist, to one or two of the gentlemen, who regarded him forbiddingly, as Englishmen do before dinner. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance All the windows were in darkness; the grey front of the house loomed forbiddingly in the faint moonlight. Back to Billabong As such did he view them all—from the ornately garbed young man who came among us purveying windmills to the portly, broadclothed, gray-whiskered and forbiddingly respectable colporteur of the American Bible Society. The Boss of Little Arcady The Beacon hills, on the further side, frown forbiddingly through the intervening northern gale, sweeping southward into the mountain gorge. Nature's Serial Story He suspected something concerning Hunting, and his face darkened forbiddingly. Opening a Chestnut Burr For a full moment he scowled forbiddingly at the sergeant who had asked to see him. Rainbow's End The gentleman concludes, contracting his eyebrows, and scowling at his property forbiddingly. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter He looked forbiddingly at a man who approached; who, in his turn, stared haughtily and turned away. The Crown of Life In the sultry dawn the convent loomed forbiddingly as a prison, and he could hardly believe that a few hours earlier the very doors now closed against him had stood open to all the world. The Valley of Decision The repasts were sullen things at which there was little said, Madonna sitting in a frozen dignity, and the doctor, a silent man at all times, being now utterly and forbiddingly mute. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza ‘He has seen nothing,’ interrupted her husband, his eyes so forbiddingly fixed on the boy that they seemed to shine like points of fire. A Changed Man; and other tales But the cleric stared at her glumly, forbiddingly, and resumed his story at a gesture. Irish Fairy Tales He scowled forbiddingly at the charming scene which the goggles had hidden from him. A Damsel in Distress Yule spoke to her with the usual carelessness, but not forbiddingly. New Grub Street She glanced at her husband with an expression of doubt and terror, and he shook his head forbiddingly. The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural |
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