When the book came out, the Times called it "gorgeously written, vaguely conceived, hallucinatory, anguished, overwhelming and profoundly disappointing"; couldn't decide whether it was a novel, a prose poem, or a "howl"; and said that its appeal was that of a "momentary fixation".
I was profoundly moved by this overwhelming and enthusiastic response.
Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.
"Expanding, not cutting, Social Security is profoundly wise policy and what an overwhelming majority of Americans want".
But what's amazing about this film is that the decisions these teenagers make when faced with an overwhelming evil are all so profoundly stupid.
That moment came today for physicists at Cern, near Geneva, home of the Large Hadron Collider, who announced overwhelming evidence for the obscure but profoundly important Higgs boson, the particle that sparked the greatest hunt in modern science.
And I was profoundly moved by what we have lost – the overwhelming sense, in the book, of a grander world which we can get to – a world of powerful ideas, tremendous vocabulary, social visions, ideals, personal knowledge – through books.
The results of association studies mixing LHON affected individuals genetically primed to the disease by nuclear genetic modifiers, with others affected only after an overwhelming long exposure to cigarette smoke, are profoundly biased by these confounding factors, diluting any meaningful genetic signal.
In the first act at least, with Jonas Kaufmann as an incomparable Siegmund, Anja Kampe a profoundly moving Sieglinde and Gergiev pacing the performance to an overwhelming climax, the result is spellbinding.
While teachers can have profoundly powerful and positive impacts on students, there is an overwhelming amount of research demonstrating that student performance on standardized tests is largely determined by their socioeconomic background.
