The phrase
"overwhelming sense" means feeling completely and intensely overcome or consumed by a particular emotion or experience.
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There is such affection, a strong sense of community, and a genuine
overwhelming sense of being cared for.
We've all been in the middle of an argument that we know we can not win, understanding that our frustration has
overwhelmed all sense of perspective.
Brilliant candy - like colors and nostalgic images
overwhelm the senses in this theatrical installation, which offers imaginative new ways of seeing, hearing and participating with the world around us.
He wanted to insert something more vibrant into these secretive inner spaces — a living fresco that would animate the interior
without overwhelming the sense of mysterious stillness that now characterised his paintings.
It Follows uses autumnal melancholy to engender an
almost overwhelming sense of dread; the nights are drawing in, and they hold many dangers.
One of my bucket list places is the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, USA; a powerful and inspiring landscape that
overwhelms our senses through its immense size.
Enlist a Second Opinion When we first meet someone new after being alone for a very long time, our enthusiasm
often overwhelms our sense of better judgement.
For those wanting a more affecting,
even overwhelming sense of the terrors of Khmer Rouge rule, those would be the place to go.
Symbolizing the divine breath that filled the first humans with life, the rushing mighty
wind overwhelms the senses, reminding believers that «there lives the dearest freshness deep down things... Because the Holy Spirit over the bent world broods with warm breast and with ah!
The difference between this film and others like it, though, is that it fills, and eventually overflows, with irrationality, causing a
strange overwhelming sense within the viewer.
Once you nestle in and buckle up, Evolution's special seats snug and hold you in place as hard cornering g - force
grip overwhelms your senses.
In Phaidon's upcoming book The Artist Project: What Artists See When They Look at Art, over 100 artists reflect on this same experience — the moment when an artwork from the Met's
collection overwhelmed their senses, inspired their practice, or changed their view on art making in general.
«Above all», he writes, «what must be emphasized about the New New painters is their painterly excess, even violence, with its
virtually overwhelming sense of erotic richness and fatal energy, bringing in its wake a sense of sounding the depths of unconscious emotion - or rather, of a sense of self we only become fleetingly conscious of in ecstasy.
Bright colours and multiple
narratives overwhelm the senses, referencing the artificiality of curated urban gardens while challenging the «seriousness» of the white cube.
When she feels an
almost overwhelming sense of empathy or desire to care for another being, that feeling manifests physically, and she experiences it in the part of her body that's associated with womanhood / motherhood.
Vantage is raw and instinctive, unwavering in its singular purpose: to
overwhelm the senses through its world - renowned design, agile performance and dedicated craftsmanship.
Upritchard has a distinctive knack for combining disparate referents and practices, underscoring how the
often overwhelming sense of the vastness of time and space can be tempered by returning to the specificity of objects.
«My absolute conviction is that we have to inject
an overwhelming sense of urgency into this fight,» Biden told the shoulder - to - shoulder gathering on Monday afternoon.
As brick - and - mortar stores attack e-commerce with its own weapons — adding more technology — premium appliance retailer Pirch opts, instead, to
overwhelm the senses.
I know that because my limbic system was stimulated by
an overwhelming sense of hope I felt watching last Thursday night's football game on the NFL network.
If so, you understand
the overwhelming sense of isolation and futility.
There's
an overwhelming sense of humility among employees.
Calof discovered that Nortel's demise was due to a slew of factors, but the most noteworthy trigger was
an overwhelming sense of arrogance at the telecommunications giant, which prevented it from taking its new competitors seriously.
The volunteers on the build came from all over the city and the area, but
the overwhelming sense of excitement banded them all together.
Hence
the overwhelming sense of confusion many have about the bond market.
Indeed, the biggest challenge facing market analysts is to ignore the linear data that
overwhelms our senses and focus on the random nature of markets.
So who knows what will happen now — but even in present emotional difficulty what I have
this overwhelming sense of is being free and it being the best thing that could have happened to me with being accused of a «conduct issue».
I was filled with
an overwhelming sense of hatred of evil and anger at our indifferent world that so allows its children to be abused.
A Peace which passes all understanding and
an overwhelming sense of excitement, Yes excitement!
Whether I was writing for school, a fictional story for my personal entertainment, processing through my teenage years on my Xanga / Myspace blog, or even in college in my English classes, I found myself feeling
an overwhelming sense of urgency to spew every single occurrence, happening, decision, prayer and thought onto paper or onto a digital document.
That overwhelming sense of peace and love you feel when you pray sometimes?
«She had
an overwhelming sense of being known and loved by God,» said Chris.
Growing up with
an overwhelming sense that God was calling you to be a leader in the Church, but where there are no images of what that looks like, you begin to have the little question mark in the back of your head.
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