Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby-Dick which could not but occasionally awaken in any man's soul some alarm, there was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him, which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest; and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form.
Six other women pinned her down, holding her head, hands, legs, with one sitting on her chest, overpowering her completely, with more than 10 other women watching while singing.
Marinated squid with Parmesan Be careful with the Parmesan because too much of it will completely overpower the squid.
One way was to allow the administration "to completely overpower the debate based on, 'I'm the commander in chief, and I know what's best.' " As he road-tests themes for a possible campaign, he argues that his party is running low on ideas for the country's future, so fixated has it been on the threat of terrorism and maintaining itself in power.
The point here is that simply declaring that we are unafraid, or that we should be, is not enough to make it so, and appeals like Bruce Schneier's in The Atlantic to "Keep Calm and Carry On", laudable as they are, are naïve, because we simply can not completely overpower our innate instincts for self-preservation.
"They completely overpowered us inside," Stringer said.
Mr. Harrison's faith, which he called Krishna Consciousness, never completely overpowered his pragmatic side.
It was a matter of finding which colors would be right for the background without completely overpowering the subject.
In the eighth century, Tibet was a sizable empire, extending into Central Asia; under the Mongols, in the thirteenth century, it was almost completely overpowered.
The veal, despite claims online that it makes the best meatballs of all, is wasted here, its delicate flavour completely overpowered by the other two meats.
Hernandez could laugh off both of the hits he allowed, for he was completely overpowering in his command, in his stuff.
