So yesterday should not have overwhelmed him.
Mr. Wermiel said the task had overwhelmed him.
But the reality seems to have overwhelmed him.
"Once inside, the memories must have overwhelmed him," Mr. Galeazzi wrote.
His personal life was falling apart then, with a divorce from his wife, Kim, and the Yankees' job could have overwhelmed him.
He had a nervous breakdown and depression in 1998, saying the pressures of business and the great number of public appearances he was making had overwhelmed him.
However, unlike the Douglas character, who was afraid of fame and success, Forrester found himself disgusted with writing because a deep sense of loss had overwhelmed him.
Even then, Robinson was reluctant to concede that a celestial body as meagre as the centre of our solar system could have overwhelmed him.
The tragedy of Darwin's life, the death of his daughter Annie, in 1851, had overwhelmed him and his wife in the years before the book was written, and lent a particular delicacy to his implicit attack on religion.
