Sentence examples for slightly overpowering from inspiring English sources

The town hall, finished in 1904, is typical of its time, pompous and slightly overpowering.

Her bloody marys are intensely rich and tomatoey, with no individual ingredient predominating: delicious, but actually slightly overpowering at breakfast time.

Even if its plot is formulaic, it has plenty fresh to say about the aspirations of young Pakistani males, and Iqbal Khan's production, presented by Tamasha in association with Oldham Coliseum and the Bush, has a raucous, and at times slightly overpowering, vitality.

Testers find the rum slightly overpowering in both; this should be a drink to be sipped slowly in a hammock, not gulped down in shock.

Generous seasoning is vital with such a simple dish, though, as I find Lawrence's half a teaspoon slightly overpowering, I'm going to recommend that you do so to taste.

Tired and slightly overpowered by the ferocious heat, I returned to my room.

While the lamb was very flavorful and tender, it was slightly overpowered by the greens in the stew.

Salads -- a tumble of organic greens or confit of duck on wilted dandelions -- are slightly overpowered by sweet vinaigrettes.

And although the 10-member orchestra, led by James Holmes, played with lively nuance, the music felt slightly overpowered by the cartoonlike action onstage.

Tom Waits's Georgia Lee was a highlight, a tender soprano saxophone reverie over soft chords that relieved the repeating ostinato-hook feel that slightly overpowered the gig and occasionally cornered Sheppard.

In its instrumentation and quasi-renaissance voice-leading, in which the slow-moving lines of the melodic instruments are scrunched together, the piece's strongest resemblance was to 2008's masterpiece Double Sextet, a superb performance of which followed (and slightly overpowered) the new work in the concert's second half.