What is "overpowering"

Usage examples of "overpowering".

Yet so overpowering is the moral domination of the born aristocrat over the born snob, that the Baroness changed her mind, and humbly took the obnoxious tray away and set it down on another table near the door.

With awesome speed for his overpowering bulk, Bettee was charging across the field to clip the little fellow from behind.

His line was vanishing, deep water was to the left, slippery rocks underfoot, nose plugs bonking his forehead with every stride, and that indescribable, horrid oxygen smell was overpowering him.

On the 9th Buller was still pushing forward to Spitzkop, his guns and the 1st Rifles overpowering a weak rearguard resistance of the Boers.

Since they entered into that world with all their physicality, the fixation of their assemblage points on the position preselected by the inorganic beings was so overpowering that it created a sort of fog that obliterated any memory of the world they came from.

It came out an overpowering story, hinting at sickly relatives dying in inaccessible parts of the island, cross-country journeys, and a noble if exhausted Ramillies crawling gamely home to be persuaded by an adoring wife to snatch what rest he might before attempting the feat of endurance which lay before him as a passenger on an almost epic flight.

FOUR WOMEN -AND THE MEN THEY ARE FORBIDDEN TO LOVE MEGAN the orphan, who feels an overpowering attraction to Jaime Miro LUCIA the fiery Sicilian beauty on the run for murder - and Rubio Arzano, the freedom fighter who risks his life to save her TERESA whose guilty conscience finally drives her to betray her friends GRACIELA who bears a terrible secret that almost destroys her and the courageous Ricardo Mellado who loves her.

The flames they had called up had not injured them, but now the heat radiating back from the scorched valley walls was almost overpowering.

Now, Stede Bonnet was a planter of high reputation and religious character who, from some sudden and overpowering freshet of wildness in his blood, had given up everything in order to start off pirating in the Caribbean Sea.

Under the thick layer of game-theory was another level, a submarginal syndrome of hate and desire and terrible fear: jealousy of Benteley, a ceaseless terror of death, involved schemes and plans, a complicated gestalt of need and goal-oriented drive actualized in an overpowering sledge-hammer of ambition.

She was willing to provide the laughter for him, the teasing to ease the overpowering emotions.

The smell of uncured wool lying in bales beneath the broiling sun was nearly overpowering.

Overlying this, almost overpowering it, was a liquid whooshing that was somewhere between wind and river, a strange antinoise that made everything seem as if it were happening in a vacuum instead of the real world.

Not, therefore, excited by vanity, but sustained by self-respect, by an overpowering feeling that he owed it to himself and the opinions he held, to show to the world that they had not been lightly adopted and should not be lightly laid aside, Bentinck rose, long past the noon of night, at the end of this memorable debate, to undertake an office from which the most successful and most experienced rhetoricians of Parliament would have shrunk with intuitive discretion.

Here there were orchards instead of vineyards, row after row of squat close-grown trees with blackish green leaves and small blue flowers that exhaled an overpowering sweetness.