Around 60% serve sentences of only a few months, almost half are reconvicted within a year and the overwhelming majority are inside for non-violent offences.
How do you put words to an overwhelming beating inside your chest.
Wiping my soaked face, I kissed each of them, feeling a rush of overwhelming gratitude inside of my breaking heart.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
His Dickinson – superbly played with a sort of restless passivity by Cynthia Nixon – is, like Sunset Song's Chris Guthrie, a figure trapped by history and circumstance, desperate to find an outlet for the overwhelming emotions surging inside her.
The tiger sniffed the air: there was the smell of the meat but also the thick, overwhelming smell of the person inside, the person whose scent he had found on and around the meat before, and whom he could see now, sitting in the back of the smokehouse, a piece of meat in her hands.
As the clock struck 9 p.m., the doors flung open and hundreds of shoppers dashed inside, ransacking displays and overwhelming the staff.
This piece is overwhelming and takes you inside yourself.
His facial expression, and as I found out later the novel itself, is telling of the overwhelming working and moving inside his mind--opinions, reflections, musings, and knowledge are crammed so tightly into his head space that he is tightening his lips in order to ensure it doesn't all spill right out.
