Sentence examples for overtakes all from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rapp captures with an uncharacteristic depth of feeling the mood that overtakes all the characters in the liberating atmosphere of the blackout: the sense of being "stuck in our lives," as Dena puts it, accompanied by the yearning for change that may never be acted upon when everyday habits return.

The ideas and the solid ground they seemed to provide prove illusory as the urgency of one's death overtakes all.

Intoxicated with empty words, Bouvard and Pécuchet awake from their dream only when catastrophe overtakes all of their efforts.

How can you see the images, pretty clear, and come out without punishment, on something [which] overtakes all professional behaviour?

This can lead to situations where one node quickly overtakes all others and is thus a component of most of the edges in the network.

Like deja vu, embittered mom senses she's been in this situation before but her rage overtakes all rationality.

There is another ticking issue, though, that may yet overtake all the European squabbling.

Dom accelerates, overtaking all the cars that were beeping him a moment ago.

But the fact is that events on the ground are moving so fast that they are overtaking all these political considerations".

One driver interviewed for the survey said: "I'll be overtaking all the time because they'll be sticking to the rules".

But by the end of her life, the dislike of baking, or indeed of any involuntary domestic chore, had overtaken all the rest.