Sentence examples for overwhelming rather from inspiring English sources

His goal was to produce a compact volume of wisdom — a kind of commonplace book — that he could use to pull himself together whenever these upheavals in his life began to seem overwhelming rather than exciting.

Being surrounded by more than 12,000 people of the same persuasion feels overwhelming rather than affirming to me, particularly because what I and many other writers do best is to be alone, the most essential condition for writing.

However, too much of one color or the other tends to be overwhelming rather than fashionable.

NC: While I still think we can sometimes move with a sloth-like grace under the pressure of the 24-hour media demands, I genuinely think that the open, deliberative, collective way of making decisions remains an overwhelming strength rather than a weakness.

Admissions deans and high school guidance counselors said they spent hours at this time of year reminding students who had been put on waiting lists or rejected entirely that there were other excellent colleges on their lists — and that rejection was often about the overwhelming numbers, rather than their merits as individuals.

Alternatively, students can be introduced to one of the existing cognitive modelling languages, though this can easily be overwhelming, hindering rather than helping their understanding.

Modern socialists learned years ago that you can effectively control large swaths of the economy through overwhelming regulation rather than outright nationalization.

Like super sexy, and that was kind of a new thing for me," said Lisa. "It was kind of overwhelming, so rather than read the messages in their entirety and let him know about it through my Read Receipts, I would put the phone on Airplane mode or turn the feature off so I could have my 'privacy' per se".

The continuous addition of new screens, including the layering of the same image or scene on top of itself, has a kinetic rhythm that is never overwhelming, but rather informs the thrilling tone of the narrative content.

"It was rather overwhelming at first," he said.

Mr. Jarmusch found all the attention rather overwhelming.