Sentence examples for feeling swamped from inspiring English sources

Obviously, an email doesn't come equipped with facial expressions, voice tone, and body language, so if you're feeling swamped with work, sugar-depleted, and feel like you just want to get out of the office, it can be easy to make the mistake of assuming negative intent in an email where there was none intended.

The series covers an enormous amount of ground but doesn't leave you feeling swamped.

Once in Tangier, there are plenty of budget options around the port gate and medina, but you may find yourself feeling swamped by touts.

What the film also does is confront the reality of death in a way other blockbusters often dodge, without feeling swamped in sadness.

Today, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon claimed that some British towns are feeling "swamped" by migrant workers and their residents felt "under siege", in comments being compared to Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech.

If you're feeling swamped by the prevalence of English on your year abroad, here are my tips to increase your exposure to your target language: Find a tandem partner online or through your host university to have free, regular conversation practice in an informal setting.

In his 1995 book Emotional Intelligence: why it can matter more than IQ, psychologist Daniel Goleman described EQ as knowing how one is feeling and being able to handle those feelings without becoming swamped; being able to motivate oneself to get jobs done; being creative and performing at one's peak; sensing what others are feeling; and handling relationships effectively.

It's almost pathological, his inability to distinguish his lovers from one another; and yet he doesn't strike me as a bad guy, or even an unfeeling one — if anything, he's swamped with feeling, snowed under by it, and thus he's curled up inside himself, in an existential hibernation.

"Periodically, my mind is blown," she says, "and I'm swamped in feelings I can't deny".

As a primary headteacher working in an area of high deprivation, I find it hard sometimes not to get swamped by feelings of desperation and hopelessness about the situations we face on a daily basis.

In one poem the narrator tries and fails to cook a "dish from my past" for his English lover and is swamped by feelings of guilt and loss: "my body craves / taste of home but is scolded / by shame of blood-desertion".