Sentence examples for overpowering emotion from inspiring English sources

But I am filled with one overpowering emotion: I'm so grateful to my father, and to my wife's grandparents, for leaving behind all that was familiar to them in two villages half a world apart, and thus bequeathing us the gift of America.

Yet some may consider the project's emotional reserve as a soothing relief from the overpowering emotions now attached to the site.

It can refer to overpowering emotions in general, including erotic feelings, but capitalize it and "Passion" becomes a synonym for the suffering and death of a martyr or saint, in particular, Jesus.

Midlife may lead to a time of great, overpowering emotions, but self-evaluation can also be a positive experience in the end.

Spitzer, unfortunately, had inherited his mother's unruly inner life and his father's repressed affect; though he often found himself overpowered by emotion, he was somehow unable to express his feelings.

Reiter felt that the costumes and choreography overpowered the emotion of the piece, and Futterman found the number "too self-indulgent and reminiscent of previous performances like 'Rose's Turn'".

The poets must not imitate (see 388c3 for the term) gods or men suffering any extremes of emotion, including hilarity, for the strong souls are not overpowered by any emotion, let along any bodily desire.

Simply getting on to the stage of the Royal Albert Hall at the end of the performance required a superhuman effort as the combination of disease and emotion was almost overpowering.

Nostalgia has a way of overpowering the rest of our emotions, you know?

His distinctive style drew from his gifts as a celebrated solo dancer who could simultaneously register the most subtle of moves, gestures and inflections and the most overpowering of emotions.

"In lots of situations women are overpowered by their emotions," she added.