"I had a lot going on and I was only 22 and the situation overwhelmed me," Wright said.
For a few moments the absurdity of the situation overwhelmed the seriousness; and if it wasn't quite football between the trenches at Christmas, the meeting ended cordially, with both sides recognising the difficulties of the other.
She often sees arriving patients on "one of the worst day of their lives," and, at first, the situation overwhelmed her, "because I can't fix the situation for them medically, in the way that a surgeon can". Yet what she has come to understand, and develop a knack for, is the value of helping in the small ways.
At times, however, my situation overwhelmed my body, thoughts, and sentiment, like a powerful surge of despair.
It wasn't until she was sitting alone in her room in juvenile hall that the gravity of the situation overwhelmed her.
"The reality of the situation overwhelms the provisions of desk-bound sociologists," El País newspaper commented today.
Bright is such a cool and callous killing machine, and the urban adventurers are such sitting ducks, that the creepiness of the situation overwhelms the genuine thrills.
"We're taking an extreme effort now to make sure that we reach a resolution," Mr. Paterson said at a news conference, "because we are more and more sinking into a deficit situation that we may not be able to ameliorate, and I'm not just going to sit around and let this situation overwhelm the taxpayers of New York".
In practical contexts where one demand dominates over the other, or one way of seeing the situation overwhelms other possibilities, those in charge will define not only whether but also how problematizations are framed.
Without letting the situation overwhelm me, I knew that I'd have to quickly learn how to manage reactions to my disfigurement so I could get the most from my interviews.
This shows that negative appraisals of one's own situation overwhelm the desires for and preclude any possibility of having a second child.
