The Boston Globe reviewer, though, warned that some might find the sheer volume overwhelming — "mind-numbingly loud" is the term used — and noted that earplugs are provided.
If "The Overwhelming" brought to mind the quiet (and not so quiet) Americans of Graham Greene, "Blood and Gifts" is said to add a dash of Evelyn Waugh and John le Carr?o the mix.
If "The Overwhelming" brought to mind the quiet (and not so quiet) Americans of Graham Greene, "Blood and Gifts" is said to add a dash of Evelyn Waugh and John le Carré to the mix.
They'll head for the campsites or the bunkhouses, they'll usually be in groups up to 20 strong, and they'll have one overwhelming ambition in mind: "They want to party," says PC Mares.
Life begins to feel too overwhelming to the mind and body.
And there's simply no better place to see the awe, the excitement, and occasional frustration surrounding America's space project in a moment of twilight than the place where those dreams, for minutes at a time, become overwhelming, jaw-dropping, mind-elevating reality.
Another problem is the overwhelming evidence that the mind is the activity of the brain.
The movie just lives inside that stunned, astonished 90 minutes of horror between one epoch and the next - and there is, to my mind, an overwhelming dramatic justification for simply attempting to face, directly, the terrible moment itself.
Never mind the overwhelming evidence that has accumulated since the last Senate hearings in 2009; never mind the crazy temperatures the US has been experiencing recently, which have alerted many Americans to what climate change is likely to deliver in the decades to come; never mind the prominent sceptic Richard Muller's assessment of the evidence, which led to his change of heart.
Yet, Turkle argues, in her research, the "agonizing" burden of a permanent, public reputation is too overwhelming for a young mind.
The overwhelming question on the mind of the hiring manager as she scans your material is, "What's In it For Me?" Let's call it "WIFM" for short.
