"overwhelming drive" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express a feeling of intense determination or ambition. For example, "John had an overwhelming drive to succeed, and it motivated him to work hard on his business plan."
Rove's paradox is that he combined a modestly Madisonian view of political motivation with an overwhelming drive to power.
Combined with the deep neural network, this gives the program more or less the qualities of a good human gamer: the ability to interpret the screen, a knack for learning from past mistakes, and an overwhelming drive to win.
Rudd is not racist, but words matter – and she finds herself the home secretary in a Ukip-lite party whose overwhelming drive is to keep its promise to reduce immigration to the tens of thousands.
Those who work in highly competitive industries, known for a "work hard, play hard" culture that revolves significantly around alcohol, are often found to have a "type A" behaviour pattern defined by aggressive, irritable personality traits and an overwhelming drive to try and achieve more and more targets in increasingly smaller amounts of time.
For psychopaths, everyday rewards may trigger abnormally large mesolimbic system responses, and thus create an overwhelming drive to seek out something rewarding despite the consequences of their actions, Buchholtz says.
And as Joe Nocera points out, even an overwhelming drive to succeed can be natural and healthy when we're young.
There was no overwhelming narrative drive or inner dramatic life to animate them.
We are looking for a principle that would, in absence of overwhelming imprinted drives, provide natural behaviour preferences that might contribute to modulate pre-imprinted drives or help constituting generic homeostatic variables.
Early MOF, which develops within the first three days after injury without signs of infection, is attributed to an overwhelming leukocyte driven pro-inflammatory response clinically defined as a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS).
Attenborough says: "Denis's overwhelming, powerful, relentless drive was how he dealt with his injury; he jokes about it.
Riding a record primary turnout, Mr. Bush rallied Republicans across the state, overwhelming Mr. McCain's drive to attract independents and Democrats like those who helped the senator in his stunning victory in New Hampshire on Feb. 1.
