Sentence examples for The overwhelm from inspiring English sources
verb
To engulf, surge over and submerge.
- The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.
The overwhelm of being in these places, as exciting as they were, and dealing with different personalities, the intensity of this business, and the egos involved, dare I say it.
The result, "Revisiting Keynes" (2008), suggests that Nobel Prize-winning economists, too, are perplexed by "the overwhelm".
As for why, deep in "the overwhelm," she has chosen to cook an elaborate dinner for eighteen, she never really explains.
(From Pavement's 1995 song "Grave Architecture": "Am I just a bathtub waiting to be gripped or found on shady ground? And the lampshade's poised on the overwhelm. Drugs, and need the talent to breathe").
A second theory that Schulte considers is that "the overwhelm" is a function not so much of how many things Americans have to do but of how much time they spend thinking about how many things they have to do.
Along the way, she discusses various possible explanations for what she likes to call "the overwhelm," as if it were something outside of us, like the Arctic or the Amazon.
That is the "overwhelming" number!
The means overwhelm the ends.
The changes overwhelmed the school.
But the space overwhelmed the art.
Eventually the familiarity overwhelms the amazing plays.
