The word 'whelm' is a valid word and can be used in written English.
It is a verb meaning to engulf, cover, or submerge completely, usually in a positive or neutral sense. It is often used in the phrase 'overwhelm' to mean a feeling of being completely overcome or inundated with something. Example: The beauty of the landscape was so overwhelming that it almost whelmed me with its grandeur. In this sentence, 'whelmed' is used to convey the speaker's feeling of being completely immersed and amazed by the beauty of the landscape. It adds a poetic and slightly dramatic touch to the sentence.
Louis Sullivan once described one of Henry Hobson Richardson's great stone buildings as a man with "virile force — broad, vigorous, and with a whelm of energy".
Burton and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith (who has recently adapted his own mashup novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter for the screen) have perhaps striven to create a Lynchian/Twin Peaks episodic feel for their very strange story and this actually promised something a little to the north of whelm in its opening 15 minutes, but then something gradually leaked out of it.
"Whelm" was more or less a movement drama, in a mode that Morris sometimes brings out of the drawer, the dark and creepy.
The final new-to-New-York work, and the only world première, was "Whelm," to three Debussy piano pieces that weren't especially danceable.
"Whelm," the one world première in the two programs, is a quartet set to two moody preludes and an étude by Débussy.
Lyrically, Whelm is often written from other people's perspectives, with some of the songs based on historical events.
Maurice Frankel, who runs the Campaign for Freedom of Information, is heartened that the government has pressed ahead despite having plenty of other things on its plate.Nevertheless, much will remain whelmed in mystery.
One evening, aboard his ship, he is so whelmed by emotion, as he talks to the fellow he believes to be his son (Owen Wilson), that his only option is to shake hands and say, "I'll be right back.
They drive to Ermajean's house and the actor is over-whelmed by his thoughts of Ermajean.
Aside from Groff, the only one who gets the whelming right is Liev Schreiber: something of a surprise, given that he spends the movie in a blond wig and a thin cotton dress.
A diving raft was beached on the icy shore, and a string of rental boats was chained to a tree, each boat filled with snow, its gunwales whelmed by deep drifts.
