Roithamer's friend, overwhelmed by this literary archive, decides to "sort and sift" the papers but not to alter them.
They told me that family members and friends were overwhelmed with the thought of the damage the storm could do to our small town and to the rest of the island, which is full of municipalities with poor infrastructures, just like Loíza.
We expect a good friend to be naturally inclined to help a friend in need; but sometimes, a person may need to muster an effort of will to come to his friend's aid specifically, when and if his first-order natural inclinations to help his friend are overwhelmed.
One day when my friend was overwhelmed with wedding preparations, I offered help.
But soon enough, Wolff and his friend were overwhelmed by Bergman's film, which is about the struggles of faith.
The positive effect of one loving relative, mentor or friend can overwhelm the negative effects of the bad things that happen.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" is quite possibly among the most ambiguous questions ever asked, second only to "who let the dogs out?" and "turn down for what?" It is therefore understandable that my friend seemed overwhelmed by what she perceived to be caustic sarcasm from my inner hippie when I provided "I want to be happy" as an answer.
But the support I had from family, friends and colleagues was overwhelming.
The World Trade Center attack was immense, its aftermath of funerals and wakes and memorials for friends and co-workers overwhelming.
Even before his wobbly decision that he might really be Jewish — for why else would he have been attacked as a Jew? — Treslove found his Jewish friends fascinating, impossible, enviable, overwhelming.
