Sentence examples for overwhelming tide of from inspiring English sources

An overwhelming tide of history was about to wash over Iraq.

But by the end of the show there was an overwhelming tide of emotion, and the actors felt that.

And he saw the beginnings of the overwhelming tide of fraud, in evidence gathered by the group's twenty-four hundred workers from around the country.

Ace Travel was among those selected by the embassy back in May to help speed what was then an overwhelming tide of visa applications.

But he believed that Labour would be hit hardest by the overwhelming tide of public anger over the MPs' expenses scandal.

Rihanna and Shakira's antics are merely part of the overwhelming tide of sexy music videos from female pop artists, a practice so dull in its homogeny that it no longer really shocks or excites for longer than the song's duration.

As a result wrangles with soft furnishings are conveyed in that plucked prose she normally reserves for characters negotiating the overwhelming tides of geography and history.

As Andrew Pettegree, an expert on the Reformation at St Andrew's University, puts it in "Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion", "It was the superabundance, the cascade of titles, that created the impression of an overwhelming tide, an unstoppable movement of opinion…Pamphlets and their purchasers had together created the impression of irresistible force".

This is where the wave of cognitive dissonance presents an overwhelming tide.

Not to overcome, but simply to resist the overwhelming tide that threatens to wash them away into an uncaring ocean of despair, every moment of every day.

There are times when I wonder if I am swimming against an overwhelming tide.