Crucially, Sharma also developed stylistic techniques to express what was unbearable in life: he distilled sensual details to "thin out" a reality which would otherwise be "overwhelming" – less was more when it came to conveying such a brutal experience.
Seeing "Vertigo" on DVD is maybe a shade less overwhelming, less deranging, than seeing it as its first audience did, but it has the compensating quality of seeming a more solitary and more intimate experience, and this is, always has been, a movie that makes you want to be alone with it.
When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
The Dutch land armies were overwhelmed in less than a week, and the government, accompanied by Queen Wilhelmina and the royal family, withdrew to England, where they formed a government in exile.
She could have easily overwhelmed a less capable backing band, but the Midnight Shivers — the bass player and harmony vocalist Andrew Tanz, the guitarist Stephen Sebastian and the drummer and occasional harmonica player Jacob Edwards — ably played with texture.
Chains can get long enough to overwhelm some less powerful devices, and the translucent homescreen can be awfully distracting when trying to find an app you placed on The Kite.
On March 15th, after a barrage of long-range shelling, Qaddafi's troops swarmed into Ajdabiya, overwhelming it in less than an hour.
Two nights ago, after Qaddafi's troops entered Ajdabiya, the next city to the west, violently overwhelming it in less than an hour, Benghazi erupted with festive gunfire.
Sort of a reverse heel-and-toe procedure (we came to call it "unblipping" the throttle), this technique turned a bumpy ride into one of the most satisfying, smooth, powerful drives we had ever seen (lifting your foot dials back the torque a bit, overwhelming the machinery less, and sends the car's weight to the front, adding traction).
Just having another person there to guide you can help you feel reassured if it's your first time and can make the process feel less overwhelming.
Another study, this one focussed on IT workers at a Fortune 500 company, found that when people were given greater control over when and where they worked, they reported experiencing significantly less work-family conflict over a six-month period and said that they felt less overwhelmed at work. .
