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In "The Singing Detective," Downey plays Dan Dark, a man whose anger, confusion and denial have so overtaken him that he is virtually paralyzed, physically and psychologically.

Mr. Balagueró is so overtaken by his villain that he becomes like César, displaying an eagerness to play the role of tormentor, which kills both the movie's pleasure and its flickering political subtext.

However, this convergence has yet to bear fruit, Mr Nader argues, because "the concentrated power of big money and lobbies have so overtaken both political parties and controlled the parameters of political conversation that progressives and libertarians fail to recognise their similar, deep aversions to concentrated power of any kind".

So, what then is Connie to make of the rush of emotions she feels towards Jonjo O'Neill's sparky, occasionally spiky Tristan, who in turn is so overtaken by love himself that he is briefly rendered a song-and-dance man in order to accommodate his surging heart?

So overtaken is the spurned narrator that she wants to teleport herself in order to understand: "I want to taste her lips, yeah, 'cause they taste like you/ I want to drown myself in a bottle of her perfume".

At a moment when culture has so overtaken nature that the latter exists only as a vague, ancestral memory, Pastor doesn't so much rescue debased materials as re-imagine beauty.

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"I paid the price and tomorrow we still have good race pace and it's a long race so overtaking should be a lot easier.

Compulsive hoarding is defined, in part, by clutter that so overtakes living, dining and sleeping spaces that it harms the person's quality of life.

The garden's shrubs and trees so overtook the garden space that by the 1960's, most of the perennials had been pulled out.

By the time the Rolling Stones arrive, the crowd in front of the Pyramid stage has swelled to 100,000, something you might have predicted had you noted the sheer number of people walking around the site in Stones T-shirts: it's hard to think of another Glastonbury that's been so conclusively overtaken by a solitary headlining act.

The actor seems so completely overtaken by Paddington as to no longer exist.

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