Sentence examples for rather overwhelmed from inspiring English sources

There's a bit of strategic thinking behind the idea as well, inasmuch as we've been rather overwhelmed by people wanting to visit recently.

9.36pm: "Track is the eldest of our five children... .. and now introductions for Bristol, Willow and Piper, who all look rather overwhelmed.

A memoir of Japanese counterculture in the 1970s, by someone who experienced it as an impressionable and often rather overwhelmed young man.

"I've been incredibly surprised by the reaction, and rather overwhelmed by all the positive comments," he told The Independent.​ "I just wanted something for me to document my transition.

For the 17-year-olds -- Jacinta Brennan, Lexia Davidson and Lucinda Smith -- it was their first sight of live Shakespeare, and their teacher reported, "They were rather overwhelmed by the experience".

After initially feeling rather overwhelmed, she soon came to embrace it, because for every one crass comment about her "looking too well to be depressed", there were dozens more from fellow sufferers, thanking her for coming out the closet.

The extraordinary ending of "Big Fish," in which the son, finally, gets to tell his own story, is a perfect melding of the visual and the verbal: the words are bolstered, rather than overwhelmed, by Burton's artistry.

Adele herself seems genuinely and rather touchingly overwhelmed; she lets out a squawk of "fuckin' 'ell" midway through the opener, Hello – its lyrics amended to mention the festival – and, for the first few songs at least, she confines her on stage chat to mutters of "this is mad", before announcing that it's "the best fuckin' moment of my life".

What they learn will help them be resilient -- rather than overwhelmed, or just plain petrified -- in the face of other disasters.

Peter Wanless, the chief executive of the NSPCC, said: "The world can be a worrying place but we need to ensure our children are reassured rather than left overwhelmed and frightened.

Thus, the defeat becomes a necessary part of the learning process and students can see the failure as an opportunity, rather than being overwhelmed and feeling helpless and fearful.