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  • The result, though, is a show that is sometimes off-puttingly preachy.

    Folkestone Triennial – review 2011

  • The result, though, is a show that is sometimes off-puttingly preachy.

    Folkestone Triennial – review 2011

  • 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.

    Thomas Ostermeier: 'Hamlet? The play's a mess' 2011

  • Waitrose opt for brown breadcrumbs in the recipe on their website – mixed with an off-puttingly wholesome combination of chestnut mushrooms, brown rice and grated carrot to provide the substance of the loaf.

    How to cook the perfect nut roast 2011

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

    How to cook perfect cullen skink 2012

  • As for the whole Green Lantern Corps, its workings and mythology, there's a lot that could be off-puttingly confusing, preposterous, or just plain goofy, but that is dramatized here in ways that make it comprehensible, fun, and even downright awesome.

    SINESTRO CORPS WAR 2010

  • As for the whole Green Lantern Corps, its workings and mythology, there's a lot that could be off-puttingly confusing, preposterous, or just plain goofy, but that is dramatized here in ways that make it comprehensible, fun, and even downright awesome.

    Archive 2010-01-03 2010

  • Johnny Galecki, who was a bit too tight in the pilot, hits his stride here, making Leonard seem endearingly rather than off-puttingly odd.

    Critic's Corner Wednesday 2008

  • He's an off-puttingly alluring character and a very promising premise for a scathingly satirical movie.

    Up in the Air; Precious; Adoration; Where the Wild Things Are 2010

  • •On the one hand, the end of the Summer Olympics means we no longer have to watch NBC's off-puttingly innumerable ads for America's Got Talent (tonight, 8 ET/PT).

    Critic's Corner Tuesday 2008

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