But in the wider exploration space, I have no problem with presenting overwhelming encounters, because at any point you can just turn around and run, right?
Freshman year at Columbia, as at any college, can be overwhelming: awkward encounters at parties in the "social dorm," where the long wooden doors can be taken down to serve as beer-pong tables; a rush to find a home base in extracurriculars and clubs.
My colleagues, and people at other agencies that represent children seeking security and opportunity in America, encounter overwhelming odds against our clients.
Sometimes we are moved to tears when we encounter overwhelming beauty or feel love beyond measure.
The disquiet of Snowden that turned him into a whistle-blower now encounters overwhelming sympathy.
So, at the Brigitte discussion, Ms. Merkel suddenly became the young woman from the lake-speckled Uckermark region northeast of Berlin, fascinated by the overwhelming friendliness she encountered when she first visited the United States after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
A new, mostly Protestant landed class posed a crucial obstacle to his daughter, Mary, in her attempt at counter-Reformation and then aided his second daughter, Elizabeth, in reversing the counter-Reformation and ensured the Stuarts, when they sought to assert "the divine right of kings", encountered overwhelming opposition from a new breed of parliamentarians.
The fight for equality is one that has been taken up with some gusto by Armitstead, who ruffled feathers by using the platform afforded to her by her podium finish in a thrilling women's road race at London 2012 to lament the "overwhelming sexism" she encounters in women's cycling.
First kisses, chance encounters, overwhelming sounds — it all combined to deliver as many kinds of revelation as there were people.
Many young faculty members encounter an overwhelming new set of demands on their time--and universities and grant-making agencies seem to find additional (often unfunded) tasks to pile on.
