The lack of an overwhelming serve made it too tough to win easy points.
Ferrero has everything that clay-court success requires: the penetrating ground strokes, the drop shots, the effective if not overwhelming serve, the motivation, the speed, the endurance.
Clément, a former Australian Open finalist, was particularly impressive, all the more so when you consider that Roddick got a high percentage (69) of his usually overwhelming first serves into play.
She mentions her most overwhelming curry, served in a London restaurant in 1930, which was so hot that she had to eat cracked ice with every bite.
Clay reads blogs, Wikipedia and Twitter, where he scrolls back, "to find the conversations that happened without me during the day," and muses, "When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that time-shifted?" These constant, almost overwhelming references serve as a reminder like the red star on a rest area map — we are here, in this time.
The purpose seemed unclear and length of the tool seemed to be overwhelming, thereby serving as deterrents.
Warmth causes the texture to become smoother and the taste to become fuller, but most people find foie gras too overwhelming when served hot.
At McNally Robinson in NoLIta, the selection is broad but not overwhelming, the cafe serves tea with a board-game-size hourglass so it does not steep for too long, and the bathroom wall carries short quotes from the likes of Henry Miller, Ralph Ellison and Anne Tyler -- and a longer one from Annie Dillard.
Georgia's lonely fight against an overwhelming Russian military served as an object lesson — a refresher that people here said no one needed — on the limits of waiting for help from friends.
Rather than leading to a widely predicted first-round win for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the fight has thrown Iran's ebullient, controversial president on the defensive.Until very recently the field of challengers looked uninspiring, particularly after the abrupt withdrawal of Muhammad Khatami, a liberal reformer who won overwhelming victories to serve as president from 1997-2005.
