Because the Sargasso is so overwhelmingly vast, he warned, "if the population gets too low, and even if the adults can find these oceanographic features, they may be so scattered" that they won't succeed in finding a mate.
The Chinatown where I spent much of my childhood, in Lower Manhattan, was a messy jumble of street hawkers, sludgy outdoor fish markets and streaming New Year's dragons; it was crowded, smelly, hectic and, to a kid, overwhelmingly vast.
And the overwhelmingly vast majority of supporters have absolutely nothing to do with it, and actively despise it, as is perhaps evidenced by the rush by other Chelsea fans to assist their club in efforts to identify the men they will regard as having brought shame on them.
Yes, there were a relative few who did resist and flee or take up arms, but we are after all talking about Jews who, for the overwhelmingly vast majority, had families they could not or would not leave, had no place to flee, or if they did, neither the means nor the opportunity, and were subject to internal passports and local police control.
The power of Smith's piece, directed by Kristi Zea and intercut with doc-like footage of recent events, is the humanity it brings to systemic problems that can otherwise feel overwhelmingly vast.
Irritatingly, the changes in my life have been so overwhelmingly vast and remarkably positive that I know for sure that throwing in the sobriety towel at this stage would be a really terrible call.
But while Britain and France, say, had global empires, Belgium's attention was focused overwhelmingly on the vast, resource-rich Central African territory of Congo, 75 times larger than Belgium itself.
As an example of this he cites the behaviour of police in Ramadi, the capital of the vast and overwhelmingly Sunni province of Anbar.
The comments the received were overwhelmingly negative by a vast majority.
Rabie Bakarat, a Professor of Media Studies at the American University of Beirut, says that in the Arab world, the media's coverage of Trump has been "vast and overwhelmingly alarming".
Perhaps the 'wrongness' is a sort of oblique challenge to the shrinking optimism in the zeitgeist, as if these oddball dancefloor curveballs somehow suggest history –— neoliberalism, surveillance, cynicism — isn't a vast and overwhelmingly linear inevitability to which we must remain passive.
