Sentence examples for overwhelming mixture from inspiring English sources

"I was filled with an overwhelming mixture of sadness, emotion and pride," the former Robben Island prisoner said in a quivering voice, describing a visit to Mandela in hospital, the last time he saw him alive.

Then, as an adult, you spend the rest of your life trying to replicate those traditions in the hope that you will somehow recapture that overwhelming mixture of sickness and excitement you used to get in the pit of your stomach – back when Christmas meant more than just a chance to sit in a chair for an entire day without having to look at a spreadsheet.

According to many, the socialist party's defeat would be overwhelming: a mixture of intellectual, organisational and leadership failures.

After a couple of days hiding out from the rain, I began to feel a kind of overwhelming dread a mixture of cabin fever and the undying feeling that we're stuck on the property and don't know when we'll be able to get someplace else.

Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.

The key to body spray is to not wear perfume as well; if you do, you will smell overwhelming to others and the end mixture won't be very pleasant.

The first time I helped to organise a funeral, I found it baffling, terrifying, weird, overwhelming, devastating and incredibly important – a very bad mixture.

Abandoned by the international community, facing overwhelming odds, they kept going on a potent mixture of sheer determination and caffeine, finally achieving independence in 1991.

If preferred, you could add a little of your favourite perfume to the mixture; beware though, as this could be overwhelming given that you also wear it each day and residual perfume will be in your clothing as a result.

If you find the menu a bit overwhelming, you can't go wrong with the house blend, a full-bodied mixture of Ceylon red and Darjeeling black teas that can be enjoyed either hot or cold, with milk or lemon.

It's a place where I grew up finding out about theatre and acting and literature, yet the overwhelming atmosphere of the place was latent violence, so that's a weird mixture as well.