In one, an art-history professor returns to his childhood home to care for his aging mother and, amid "the more than overwhelming glories of burgeoning spring," rediscovers the roots of his interest in art.
In some ways, this book is the result of dealing with the ultimate case of dance music history FOMO: since neither he or we could be there to feel it ourselves, Matos meticulously recreates it, in all of its massive, confusing, overwhelming, epic glory, and invites us all to join in.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
I've never been comfortable with PC games, I find the sheer volume of buttons you can press overwhelming, and in Quest for Glory it felt like I could do anything.
But no one here is shadowed by Graham's overwhelming temperament, by that ruthless glory-driven -- as she used to say, doom-eager -- embrace of suffering, struggle and self-discovery.
Football players, like Angelinos, are quite literally killing themselves on the off chance that they will beat the overwhelming odds and achieve fame and glory.
But the overwhelming factor, the one that De Villiers personified in all his pink glory while raising thousands of rand for cancer research, is what the batsmen expect of themselves.
But there was glory too in bearing witness once again to Shakespeare's overwhelming powers of revelation, and the capacity of the world's great actors to illuminate them.
Iain Duncan Smith set out today to erase doubts about his leadership of Britain's Conservatives, telling the party it had to cease dwelling on outdated glories if it was to avoid repeats of its two overwhelming electoral defeats.
The sheer beauty of this film is almost overwhelming, but as with other works of religiously minded art, its aesthetic glories are tethered to a humble and exalted purpose, which is to shine the light of the sacred on secular reality.
I think of the overwhelming pride and pleasure with which, disillusioned as he has become with the pursuit of glory, he responds to General Kutuzov's recollection of the courageous charge in which Andrey had been given up for dead.
