Overwhelming

Examples

• With his mind apparently relieved from an overwhelming weight, by having at last got an order for something, the waiter imperceptibly melted away. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They were sustained by what seemed an overwhelming force of disciplined troops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And then Prince took her arm in his and turned with great emotion and respect to his father, whose deportment at that moment was overwhelming. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am overwhelming you with money--in my expansive intentions--if you only knew it! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Plays and novels have indeed an overwhelming political importance, as the moderns have maintained. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• To him, the wonder of this transit was overwhelming. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earthquake, it split, and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• All her resentment of his fancied coldness was swept away in this overwhelming rush of recollection. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• An attack in overwhelming force on France through Belgium might repeat 1870 on a larger scale. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Will any private training enable him to stand firm against the overwhelming flood of popular opinion? Plato. The Republic.
• But why should I dwell upon the incidents that followed this last overwhelming event. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Thomasin surely would be broken down by the sudden and overwhelming nature of this event. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They attacked often against overwhelming odds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At last, however, there came an overwhelming desire to see the child once more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The perplexity into which I had plunged this high legal authority was so overwhelming that he was quite unable to conceal it from notice. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• German militarist imperialism had been defeated, but at an overwhelming cost. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The picture you have just drawn is suggestive of a rather too overwhelming contrast. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Editor: Miles