With dark nods to American abstract expressionism, Russian constructivism, graffiti and tribal markings, they're powerful and overwhelming.
The aromas were piercing, almost painfully so, and while the wine was dry, it was excruciatingly powerful and overwhelming.
She talked out how the event is powerful and overwhelming.
Those hugs, each thank you and each brief story was powerful and overwhelming.
During the Summer of Love, there were many other acid chemists making acid, but if you understand the LSD experience and how powerful and overwhelming it can be, the question is if people weren't using the real stuff, the pure stuff, would they have gotten to the place they got to?
The Beaulieu was dense, powerful and almost overwhelming, as if flavors had been layered on with a trowel, a far cry from the austerely elegant Georges de Latours of yore.
In the early 21st century, then, Canada continued to struggle with the set of issues that had been at the centre of Canadian existence for centuries: French-English relations, the British governmental inheritance, a powerful and occasionally overwhelming U.S. shadow, and tendentious relations with its Indian (First Nations) population.
As if he sensed these thoughts he pressed me more tightly to him, and for the first time I caught, beneath the more powerful and nearly overwhelming smell of alcohol, his own scent, which would be the greatest source of the pleasure I took from him and which I would seek out (at his neck and crotch, beneath his arms) at each of our meetings.
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.
A southern school is known for low stances, kicks below the waist and fast and powerful overwhelming hands.
Words like "horrifying," "catastrophic" and "utterly life-ending" — those words were too powerful, too overwhelming, and would remain so for decades.
