In the U.S., eating beef heart may seem off-puttingly adventurous.
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Are they off-puttingly taken with themselves or too reserved for your taste?
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This is unusual in a Hunanese kitchen, but only those spareribs were off-puttingly sugary.
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But for all his brilliance on the pitch, many fans see Ronaldo as off-puttingly arrogant.
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"There was sperm in the air," as the writer Stefan Zweig somewhat off-puttingly put it.
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It is off-puttingly close to the yogurt end of the spectrum of creamy white things.
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An Oregon pinot noir recommended as a staff favorite was, to me, off-puttingly thin and tart.
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Fabric's door policy has always been one of the tightest in the city, sometimes almost off-puttingly so.
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Rory is off-puttingly domestic in a manner that recalls her stint as Dean's Donna Reed in season one.
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His era-scrambling cleverness — also evident in his 1999 adaptation of Molière's "The Misanthrope" — can initially feel off-puttingly arch.
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And being nearly three hours from Manhattan by car, not counting traffic, it was also thought of as off-puttingly remote.
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Even better than its comic book craziness, Wynonna Earp has become a model for how to make a fantasy story mature but not off-puttingly gloomy.
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Public discourse about ecology tends to be off-puttingly dour and hortatory, full of grim scientific data about climate change and futile political ultimatums about civilization's doomsday tipping points.
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And the existential risk conversation can come across as tone-deaf and off-puttingly academic, as if it's no big deal if merely hundreds of millions of people will die due to climate change.
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Apple has spent much of its promotional push behind iOS 12 so far focused on features that range from silently useful, like Safari's new privacy powers, to off-puttingly quirky, like animoji tongue-tracking.
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Item ordered: MayFair - Jacquard Babydoll Dress with Qipao Collar, $973What gave me pause: Though not stolen, their imagery is a surrealistic attempt at lifestyle photography, and many of the photos are off-puttingly low-budget.
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Badu distinguishes between the vegan life style, which strikes her as off-puttingly "hardcore" (with its proscriptions, for instance, against leather clothing), and a vegan diet, which she views as a matter of common sense.
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Perhaps off-puttingly for Gaga fans who prefer their "Mother Monster" in dance-goddess mode, Joanne mostly forgoes club bangers for big, guitar-driven tracks that evoke arena-rock triumph rather than sweaty dance floor shenanigans.
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He conducted The Paris Review ' s interview with Robert Lowell, who then helped choose his first book, the off-puttingly titled "Final Solutions," for a prize sponsored by the 92nd Street Y; scandalized, the institution refused to grant it.
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It's the one section of the show with mandatory audience participation, and when Ms. Oh explained what she wanted us to do — move to the edges of the theater and form a circle — it seemed impractical, awkward and off-puttingly kumbaya.
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What's more — not to sound off-puttingly high-maintenance here — there was no electrical outlet inside the bathroom of my tiny home, which meant if I wanted to blow-dry my hair, I'd have to do it in the middle of the living area.
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Because humans hate being bored or confused and there are countless ways to make decisions look off-puttingly boring or complex — be it presenting reams of impenetrable legalese in tiny greyscale lettering so no-one will bother reading it combined with defaults set to opt in when people click 'ok'; deploying intentionally confusing phrasing and/or confusing button/toggle design that makes it impossible for the user to be sure what's on and what's off (and thus what's opt out and what's an opt in) or even whether opting out might actually mean opting into something you really don't want… What advertising hell on earth is this?
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Encyclopedia of the Black Death Volume 1. p. 15 "Anti-Semitism and AntI-Jewish Violence before the Black Death .. Their attention to personal hygiene and diet, their forms of worship, and cycles of holidays were off-puttingly different." Additionally, there are many Jewish laws that promote cleanliness: a Jew must wash his or her hands before eating bread and after using the bathroom, it was customary for Jews to bathe once a week before the Sabbath, a corpse must be washed before burial, and so on.
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15 "Anti–Semitism and Anti–Jewish Violence before the Black Death ... Their attention to personal hygiene and diet, their forms of worship, and cycles of holidays were off-puttingly different." Accusations spread that Jews had caused the disease by deliberately poisoning wells.Anna Foa The Jews of Europe After the Black Death 2000 p. 146 "There were several reasons for this, including, it has been suggested, the observance of laws of hygiene tied to ritual practices and a lower incidence of alcoholism and venereal disease"Richard S. Levy Antisemitism 2005 p.
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Barney and Marshall then complain that Ted is not confessing as soon as they had expected, which Robin does not care about and demands them to stop. When Robin goes back to the apartment, she reveals the truth to Ted, so he "confesses" via text that he had a gay sex dream about his "best friend", leading Barney and Marshall to argue over which of them is more attractive to Ted and who is his best friend. Later at MacLaren's, Ted lures them into spending half an hour listening to him describe a dream about dining with famous architects, before he reveals he knows about their deception and has tracked Holli down. He explains that he wants to meet a woman who likes his enthusiasm; Holli arrives, saying she found Ted's immediacy romantic, but when they go out to dinner she turns out to be an off-puttingly more desperate romantic than he is, showing the signs that Barney and Marshall had mentioned earlier.
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