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Third person singular of overpower
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Crumbled in at the end, it gives the sauce a deliciously rich, sweet earthiness, but overpowers the tangy flavour of the wine.
Like the others, NBC is well aware that the arithmetic goes beyond sport.Rupert Murdoch, probably the world's most powerful media mogul (and certainly its most ubiquitous), believes that sport "absolutely overpowers" all other programming as an incentive for viewers to subscribe to cable and satellite TV.
The 19th-century French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix wrote that Rubens "carries one beyond the limit scarcely attained by the most eminent painters; he dominates one, he overpowers one, with all his liberty and boldness".
Falco swans around imposingly and has an extraordinary, petulantly slurred voice, but she's so obviously a Find that she overpowers the film.
It overpowers the aroma of roasting meat, and the women's perfume, and the Christmas tree that lingers like a broken promise, peace on earth, goodwill to all men, and ten days of leave.
Ben then places his cafetière, or French press, on a set of digital scales and weighs out his freshly ground coffee and hot water (not boiling – the heat overpowers the coffee).
"Part of me really enjoys the buzz of the city, but I also worry about the [human] noise that buzz overpowers and makes inaudible".
Ethically sourced and organic, the extra-thick shell is also delicious – no mean feat with mint chocolate, where whose mintyness often overpowers the taste of the actual chocolate.
But the mobility of the second section somewhat overpowers the chronicle of the first, and Ulrich fades as a presence.
He is a vivid creation, and dominates the second half of the book — a crank, a shaman, an urban philosopher, an interesting failure and theatrical bore, he is the kind of comic character who properly overpowers good novels.
(Feb. 21 and Feb. 25 at 8). | Elijah Moshinsky's production of Verdi's (very) grand opera "Otello" almost overpowers the Met's stage with its towering scenery, but when the principals are front and center, the action comes alive as gripping theatre.
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