off-puttingly

Perhaps it will finally become too off-puttingly ridiculous for public consumption.

Despite the authentic antiques, the house doesn't look off-puttingly formal.

I don't agree with all of them, and he often seems off-puttingly pleased with himself.

The atmosphere is slightly intellectual but not off-puttingly so.

She said nothing for some moments, the simulated face remaining off-puttingly impassive.

If that sounds off-puttingly worthy even to devotees of serious nonfiction, then too bad for us.

The title sounds off-puttingly fey, and the stories, it is true, are about fairies.

But Baumgardner's book is likely to seem off-puttingly naïve to the more seasoned reader.

She's touched with a godly or ungodly power yet is also off-puttingly fallible.

The architect could be grandiose when talking about himself, and the image of him contemplating the tools of his trade may seem off-puttingly divine.

Unfortunately the period manners on display by both narrator and dancers have a tendency to look forced and off-puttingly mannered.

The result is a novel that in many ways preens and poses as much as its off-puttingly precocious heroine.

Small wonder that that hard-working revival seemed to have polished its brassiness to an off-puttingly blinding degree.

The cube, off-puttingly fishy, with a rubbery texture, evolved from visit to visit but always seemed like an intruder.

If these books may be taken as emblematic, then perhaps we can look to them for more lessons about what spiritual professionals like to call, off-puttingly, "Godtalk."

In an off-puttingly severe series of arched rooms at the Venetian, Delmonico serves 500 or more diners on a good night.

If this sounds like European avant-garde theatre at its most off-puttingly modish, the effect is in fact kookily funny and coolly self-aware.

He was careful yet responsive, mild yet firm, well briefed yet conversational, consistently intelligent yet never off-puttingly brilliant.

There was a cloud of cigarette smoke in a rank convention hall, no bar, and many off-puttingly smart people hovering by piles of ponderous foreign books.

This is lovely - silky, rather than thin, and creamy without being off-puttingly rich (after all, this is a Scottish fishwives' dish).

The cheesecake, usually the prime pick at steakhouses, has the right creamy texture but is off-puttingly spooned into a cereal bowl at the Original Frank's.

Mr. Twombly's quasi-scholarly erudition and calculated faux-primitivism can seem off-puttingly mannered; there is a certain Romantic grandiosity about the project, too.

Cheap, point-and-shoot devices offer a diminishing advantage over top mobile phones, while proper DSLRs are off-puttingly complicated as well as expensive.

Sichuan pepper gives the veal tenderloin an unpleasantly gritty surface, and pickled papaya strikes a discordant note, off-puttingly acidic and sickly sweet at the same time.

The technique for making these puddings does seem off-puttingly unfamiliar, involving cotton cloths, kitchen string, large steamers, and the key ingredient suet is hardly a regular on our shopping lists.