Sentence examples for overpowering of from inspiring English sources

But I'm very disturbed by the overpowering of curiosity with greed".

There is the rise of religion and the slow overpowering of polytheisms by more or less toxic monotheisms.

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.

A nervous start and erratic shooting Sunday evolved into a relentless overpowering of Ohio State, 81-50, giving the Huskies their 88th consecutive victory and tying a Division I basketball record set by the U.C.L.A. men, coached by John Wooden, from 1971 to 1974.

My spirit and my reason are in line, so there will be no overpowering of rational preferences about what is best by spirit.

Thus it was, he believed, that today so many, including so-called Christians, failed to fathom the claims about Jesus' divinity, which had to do with the overpowering of death, not in any mystical or Pythagorean manner of the continuity of the individual soul in a netherworld, but in the triumph over death and deadly forces through forming a body across time, the Church.

"One of the things you have to show is reasonable fear," he said, "Of being overpowered, of being helpless, of being in a situation where you can't defend yourself physically".

Yet Michelangelo takes the simplicity of serial images to overpowering heights of invention as he tells the story of creation.

In his miniatures, Smith aims to recreate the gritty, overpowering atmosphere of urban decay of the cities, like a decrepit back alley filled with rust, rubbish, and graffiti.

I for one am tired of waking up to the overpowering smell of tax free coffee.

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