However, we have come across a reason for thinking such education and cognitive enhancement cannot be sufficient for moral enhancement: to be morally good involves not just knowing what is good, but being so strongly motivated to do it that this overpowers selfish, nepotistic, xenophobic, etc. biases and impulses.
At issue is the difficulty in reforming institutions, in this case the overpowering and deeply resented police and security forces.
That must have been something, but I appreciated being engulfed by the music alone, so extreme, volatile, strangely alluring and, in this performance, overpowering.
From the near-endless horizon created in its opening to the shattering climax of the second movement (brilliantly stage-managed by Mr. Barenboim and his players), this is overpowering beauty.
But it continued to perpetuate the silliest and basest of myths: That what mattered in all of this was overpowering your opponent, draining his energy, and then holding him down for a three-count victory.
But it continued to perpetuate the silliest and basest of myths: that what mattered in all of this was overpowering your opponent, draining his energy, and then holding him down for a three-count victory.
This massive painting, overpowering and, some would say, overwrought, has not been seen in Britain since 1951.
Even those who profess no interest in the Royals are likely to be tantalized by this glimpse of overpowering obtuseness and snobbery.
But the Yankees' starters have not been overpowering this season, and that is worrisome for a team that lost the World Series last fall because its starters could not match the Arizona Diamondbacks' for sheer dominance.
As she gazes into the mirror, can she be dreaming, just this once, of overpowering her endlessly demanding charges and dragging them off to her den belowstairs, there to devour them at her leisure?
