Sentence examples for overwhelming scene from inspiring English sources

The notion that as far as the eye could see on the ground there would be people waiting to march peacefully to the Lincoln Memorial was an overwhelming scene".

If the most overwhelming scene in the opera is, appropriately, the execution, the runner-up is the sextet between the victims' parents, Sister Helen and De Rocher's hapless mother, sung with huge emotional directness by Frederica von Stade.

When first walking into her classroom, they are greeted by a video strategically cued to a busy and potentially overwhelming scene in Bangladesh.

I ask about the overwhelming scenes between Coriolanus and his mother Volumnia (played by Vanessa Redgrave), and whether the relationship with his own mother influenced them.

Schopenhauer offers a phenomenologically-complex account of how we may take aesthetic pleasure in such fearsome or overwhelming scenes.

As Emilia Marty (or Elina Makropulos) Ylva Kihlberg gives a consummate performance, rising superbly to the heights of the overwhelming final scene.

The soprano Serena Farnocchia may not be the most charismatic of Annas, but her singing is consistently attractive and, in facing rejection, death and temporary madness, she deals with Anna's overwhelming final scene grippingly, sometimes couched in Elizabeth's crib.

The overwhelming banquet scene that takes place in the Skriker's underworld kingdom revels in a loss of control and bodily pleasures that results in visceral self-destruction: a cannibal feast of human flesh.

Mr. Aronofsky gave a signal and suddenly the warriors were streaming into the scene, overwhelming Mr. Jackman as he flailed at the mob.

The movie's melodrama arises, rather, from the furious power of love, which Stahl brings to the screen in flourishes of intimate rapture especially in luminous and tremulous closeups of Sullavan that gain all the more romantic intensity from the overwhelming, turbulent crowd scenes that give rise to them.

There may be the odd absurdist comic line, but the overwhelming tone of the scene is one of unrelenting cruelty and sadness.