The overwhelming sense was of humiliation, that friend and precursor to moral rightness.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
Most people deal with overwhelming anger or hurt or humiliation or shame any of the hot, noisome feelings that form in the gut and move slowly up the throat by marshalling their strength and batting those thoughts back down.
And one can't help but suspect that, on that night, Trump's own sense of public humiliation became so overwhelming that he decided, perhaps at first unconsciously, that he would, somehow, get his own back — perhaps even pursue the Presidency after all, no matter how nihilistically or absurdly, and redeem himself.
Five goals, utter humiliation for Arsenal and the overwhelming sense that Arsène Wenger's side had actually been lucky to escape an even more harrowing ordeal.
The tide of criticism, scrutiny, and humiliation she faced every day would have been overwhelming to most.
Gorbachev and Yeltsin are seen by an overwhelming majority as historical disasters who provoked decline, collapse, chaos, and humiliation before the triumphal West.
To a nation with our overwhelming conventional military superiority, that should be a source of national humiliation.
Early-life exposures to stress especially during pregnancy, humiliation or misleading parenting can alter normal epigenetic programming in the brain, with overwhelming consequences for gene expression and behavior (Khulan et al., 2014; Szyf, 2011; Wu et al., 2014).
