Langton waited until 11 00 pm to tell the others, which led to John Hawkins' becoming pale and overcome with "an agony of mind", along with Seward and Hoole describing Johnson's death as "the most awful sight".
I edited the speech in real time, skipping over a section about my person achievements and, overcome with emotion, shortened a paragraph about dropping out of CAL during the AIDS epidemic.
In a piercingly tender scene, Zuckerman, now seventy-one and overcome with impossible longing for a younger woman himself, goes to visit the elderly Amy.
Already soaked with Champagne and overcome with emotion, George Steinbrenner stood in a corner of the jammed Yankees clubhouse last night and cried as he struggled to finish his first few sentences.
I was terrified and overcome with jealousy.
Catherine, who has submitted subserviently to Chaval's beatings and the punishing regime of her job, is carried away by the mob's vehement hopes at the strike's climax: She couldn't have said why, but she was suffocating, and was overcome with a desire to kill.
In one instant, an anonymous, 25-year old, socially awkward and mentally unstable fan of The Beatles, who had fluctuated between idealizing Lennon and being overcome with a desire to kill him, altered the course of the history of music.
I read the congratulatory email and was overcome with a wave of elated relief: I'd not only been accepted to an Ivy League college, but there in a single email I'd been handed the financial means to meet the economic burden that the idea of college tuition had placed on my shoulders.
"There was a profound shift in my identity and viewpoint, and I was overcome with a feeling of uncertainty and rootlessness".
Robot soldiers might not only be faster, stronger, and more reliable than human beings, they would also be immune from panic and sleep-deprivation, and never be overcome with a desire for vengeance.
