(Think of the myriad visual representations of amazons, maenads, furies, witches, sorceresses, she-monsters, and harpies who populate Greek art for coming so near (yet ultimately fail) to overwhelming male heroes--and thereby having to be permanently put down by men).
In art, crafts, architecture and lifestyle, it is a hybrid that even an invasion of chain stores, beautiful people and fusion cuisine has failed to overwhelm.
But some unexpected players, lured by the relative ease of getting one of 10 best picture nominations in a field that was widened from 5 last year — as well as by the opportunity created when "The Social Network" failed to overwhelm at the box office — are getting ready to change the campaign dynamic.
It's not so surprising that English's "openness" to words fails to overwhelm McWhorter — he's a linguist, and as a bunch linguists tend to be less impressed with the words that make up a language's vocabulary than they are with how those words fit together.
But it was a far from convincing performance from a much-changed United side, which failed to overwhelm Reading, led by caretaker boss Eamonn Dolan.
Many Americans continue to delight in ridiculing Karl Marx, a German philosopher who died 131 years ago, because revolution failed to overwhelm the rapidly industrializing world as he so famously predicted.
How could the Russian, with so many millions to feed, fail to be overwhelmed?
This seems simple enough, but CEOs often fail to understand the logic, become overwhelmed by the criticism, lose confidence in themselves, and decide that they are no longer capable of running their own companies.
As fitness professionals we often fail to discuss the difficulties and overwhelm we feel when it comes to sharing our truths.
Ted Danson and Patrick Wilson are the head cops this time, both more competent than all the others, and the roster of villains who overwhelm the cast never fail to be creepy and hilarious.
