It becomes an overwhelming task, like having to remake the world.
There are so many smaller and larger elements – things made, found, adapted, conjoined, fabricated, aligned, superimposed, ordered and arranged – that piercing the logic becomes an overwhelming task.
The increasing volume of tests (∼5% growth per year) processed by the Histocompatibility laboratory has gradually become an overwhelming challenge.
One can browse beyond this number on iTunes, but that quickly becomes an overwhelming, laborious task.
But our self-control quickly dissolves as the stream of daily demands becomes an overwhelming flood of tasks and to-do's.
The performance thus becomes an overwhelming labour, like the task of Sisyphus, condemned forever to carry a rock up a mountain, only to see it roll down each time he reached the top.
It is the rise of the network that allows us to exploit a fact of human labour that long predates the internet: the ability to divvy up an overwhelming task – such as the writing of an exhaustive encyclopedia – into small enough chunks that completing it becomes not only feasible, but fun.
But it's such an overwhelming task.
"Being a caretaker," Mrs. Johnson said, "is an overwhelming task".
Trying to change school meals, however, can be an overwhelming task.
