Then I felt hope and joy — the triumphant beginning of the Obama era included the strange, visceral pleasure of seeing George W. Bush, that deeply flawed President, reluctant and overmatched by his role, plucked out of the whole scenario, airlifted off to Texas, to the relief of just about everybody.
Dour and uninspiring, he appeared lost in the byways of Washington and overmatched by the role of president.
When the Liberty tried to get physical, it was overmatched by a bigger, stronger and quicker team.
Southwest Missouri (29-6) was ultimately overmatched by a deep, tall and determined Purdue team, which had four players score in double figures.
Overmatched by a rookie pitcher, Chris Archer, the Yankees' offense mustered only three base runners, drawing heavy boos from the crowd as Ichiro Suzuki grounded out to polish off Archer's complete game.
But the first half was 24 minutes of up-tempo domination by the Spurs that made the Lakers resemble the Celtics in New Jersey, a two-man production overmatched by a more complete team.
As Arturo Ortega, father and husband, he holds down a galling but unseen assembly-line job, lives in an Arizona town on the Mexican border and still seethes with the memory of his promising boxing career, destroyed when he was overmatched by a traitorous manager.
Kidd's inability to get Phoenix past the second round had nothing to do with his own inadequacy and everything to do with his team being overmatched by an opponent down low.
Booing your own Championship team when overmatched by an opponent performing at an unbelievable level?
The Washington Post criticised the film's focus on Morrissey's character and called the actor "overmatched by Stone" and "a sad sack", and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called him "a charisma-challenged non-entity".
