Since then, speculation over the so-called caliph's fate has been almost overwhelming, something not aided by misreporting based on statements from false Twitter accounts claiming to represent, among others, Isis spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani and the Iraqi Foreign Minister.
The interior looks acoustically overwhelming, something of a cross between Monstro the Whale's innards and a termite's wet dream.
Some Twitterites complained that Groupon's overwhelming something-for-nothing appeal persuades them to buy things they're not actually interested in.
"The evidence was so overwhelming that something was going on," said Dr. Brice McPherson, entomologist at the University of California at Berkeley.
The Giants probably viewed Palmer the same way the Patriots thought of Brady at draft time: a solid college quarterback, a product of a big-time program, a high degree of talent but not overwhelming, and something of a project.
With whispers and questions swirling, the United States men's basketball team will enter its quarterfinal game Thursday against undefeated Spain without being an overwhelming favorite, something it has been for most of basketball's 68-year history as an Olympic sport.
Which is to say, not fiction at all: not powerful, mysterious, wonderful and overwhelming, but something that can be fitted neatly into a PhD essay, or a review of the type which suggests the reviewer is privy to certain intimate facts about the character and circumstances of the author without which the reader will be lost.
To wit: In November 2008, the city overwhelming approved something called Proposition Q, that would tax the money venture capitalists make from returns as payroll income, not capital gains.
"I am skeptical, but I'd also like to think that I'm open-minded enough that if evidence came that was absolutely overwhelming about something being extraterrestrial or some other explanation, that I wouldn't say, 'Oh, it can't possibly exist, therefore it doesn't,'" he said.
When I was young I assumed that art and sex and culture and going out was some kind of respite from all this, a clean break from all this overwhelming life, something intangible that you could sneak off into when all this humanness got too much.
"There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature.
