The noise of crashing wood, trucks beeping in reverse, and men shouting was overpowering. |
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Still even this amount will help alleviate the banging techno on the temples and the overpowering, unfightable, desire to die. |
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Bile was burning my mouth, my throat and chest were so tight, the nausea was overpowering. |
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Beardies also love to race around and play with each other and other dogs and will often appear very overpowering. |
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His expression touching bewilderment, he nevertheless returned my mother's overpowering embrace with a smile and genuine goodbye. |
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The mushrooms were fine, and the sauce was creamy, moreish and perhaps a little overpowering. |
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The need to paint, for me, is to try to control overpowering emotional forces. |
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To keep the drums from becoming overpowering onstage and in the mix, they were muted with a set of SoundOff drum set silencers. |
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Big, poufed dresses can be overpowering on a tall woman, and very slim dresses can make you look even taller. |
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It offers the drinker not an overpowering smack of peat, but a delicious honeyed, floral sweetness. |
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But he did it with a trademark smarm and overpowering obnoxiousness that left Giblets coming back for more! |
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Nor is nemesis, the overpowering sense of eventual destruction, far from the political lives of these players. |
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The Glitterati have managed to produce an album full of strength without overpowering you. |
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Also the music is so overpowering at times that the film seems more like a pop video than a piece of cinema. |
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They could barely resist the call of the forbidden, and the urge was overpowering. |
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The stench from the river is so overpowering that even those desperate for water would shun it. |
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The harpsichord was remarkably bright, and thus at times also rather overpowering. |
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He normally liked its scent, but on Cinnamon it was an overpowering affront to his olfactory nerves. |
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Marcy felt her breath quicken, her heartbeat accelerate and crescendo in her ears to an overpowering drone. |
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Above all, it is rich with the overpowering detail of heavily researched cultural history. |
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The only reason that we were being beaten so badly was the drow were overpowering us with their teamwork. |
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The sadness is overpowering, like all-day darkness of a winter polar station. |
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The more you chew, the more the taste intensifies, eventually overpowering the other ingredients. |
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The broth was a little too buttery, with some slightly overpowering raw garlic dominating the flavour. |
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Such occasions were dominated by the overpowering splendour of the Aksumite rulers. |
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Heavily perfumed nose, almost overpowering, with a dominance of apricot and peach blossom. |
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The overpowering scent and taste of whiskey fills my nostrils and burns my taste buds. |
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The characteristic and distinctive sights, sounds and smells were overpowering. |
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Presented with the most sublime, savage and overpowering rock performances of all time, the British slouched sulkily back to their houses. |
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Blue Jays and crows seem to have moved in of late, overpowering the persistent chirps of the chipping sparrows and resident cardinals. |
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The palm oil and peanut used to marinate the leaves provide a nice touch without overpowering the fibrous greens. |
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She was overpowering me and hitting those passing shots with precision and power and that's why I had to opt for the sliced returns. |
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He burst onto the scene last year and showed he can control his overpowering fastball. |
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We should require evidence that would be overpowering in its effect on our judgment with reference to the incredibility of the statements made. |
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Yet, the gesture was filling him with an emotion totally different from the previous night, overpowering the anger and annoyance. |
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Oversize posters foreshorten and ameliorate the overpowering, tunnel-like perspective. |
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This actually has some cheese flavour and the egg custard is well made, but it's full of too many overpowering chives. |
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All that was around her was Michael Milano, his oily, slimy, greasy demeanor was overpowering her. |
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Here, it was a citrus sauce with a packet-mix consistency and overpowering artificial flavourings that kept me guessing. |
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It's a live recording that is naked in its emotionality and beauty, simply overpowering. |
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An exalted call rang out joyfully, overpowering Griffith's next words and catching the Dawns' attentions. |
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It remains an overpowering moment, delivered with the manic energy of a preacher. |
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The green chile was delicious, yet didn't commit the ultimate faux pas of overpowering the smooth queso in the enchilada. |
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Like the bloodhounds they are, they must have sniffed the overpowering scent of money mixed with a human rights issue, and went in for the kill. |
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The reek of moral decay is overpowering and has set in across the rainbow nation. |
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But in the final laps of a close race, friends and family fade to black against the overpowering compulsion to win. |
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They amplified simple stories with such emotional reverberations that they became elemental and overpowering, like a force of nature. |
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These Shakers were convinced of the unique and overpowering rightness of their religion. |
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I'm not a fan of lima beans, but these had a subtle goodness instead of the overpowering flavor of usual lima beans, and no crumbly texture. |
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He is not particularly fast or overpowering, but he has great instincts and never loses sight of the quarterback during the rush. |
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The service is quick, courteous and attentive without becoming overpowering. |
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The overpowering love of Subhadra for her son and her efforts to bale him out of the mess makes for the rest of the story. |
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The exotic combination was not overpowering, and married well with the fish. |
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There were seven people seated in the parlour, but their silence was such that the rhythmic tick of the grandfather clock in the entrance hall seemed overpowering. |
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The fumes were overpowering and the engines made a terrible racket. |
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Motors, relays, generators, or simply other magnets or magnetic materials, can all also cause the pointer to move, overpowering the Earth's magnetism. |
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The small family home is still intact but the stench of rotting flesh that comes from inside is overpowering. |
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Being left to guard such bounty can be an overpowering temptation. |
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With every dish, I strive to achieve a balance of flavours, enhancing the individual tastes and textures of ingredients without masking or overpowering any of them. |
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I suggested that maybe the spiciness of the Merguez may be overpowering it, because the Emmental certainly gave my own crepe it's nutty distinct flavour. |
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The intense scent is almost overpowering in a small room on a warm day. |
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With its fresh, cheese-stuffed pasta shells drizzled with a sauce that is rich but not overpowering, these miniature crescents are very tasty indeed. |
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It does produce small black fruit favored by some birds, and, in early summer, barely visible racemes of white flowers with an overpowering, sickly-sweet scent. |
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Creating a sillage that is potent but not overpowering is tricky. |
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It may be loud and overpowering, but at least it sounds good. |
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The aura of poverty, corruption, and urban decay is overpowering. |
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Shanghai men also use perfume, and they use it with great care, so as not to leave any overpowering aroma even though they have little body odour to hide. |
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To date I am still receiving complaints from residents and workers in the immediate vicinity that the smell at times is overpowering and unbearable. |
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The scent is strong but not overpowering and the cream sinks in fast. |
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Pound for pound he is probably the longest hitter in golf, and when his streaky putter clicks, he is capable of overpowering any course or opponent. |
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I say a small scale, because an overpowering majority of the public has never heard of him. |
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That overpowering, but ultimately ill-placed, nostalgia seems to also ring true for executive producer Rick Rubin. |
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In my anxiety I got a much earlier train, and when I changed onto the branch line was afflicted with almost overpowering excitement at this journey into the remote past. |
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I can still recall the overpowering smell from all those leaves. |
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These overpowering urges are ruining my weight-loss efforts! |
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I thought it might have been that he was 2nd generation Jamaican, but listening closely the Brummie twang was overpowering any residual patois from his parents. |
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The romaine was crisp and full of bite, the vinaigrette was tangy but not overpowering and the freshly shaved Parmesan bound it all together in perfect harmony. |
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Bold floral patterns mixed in with plain simple classic colours recreates the chintzy look without overpowering your room. |
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The conquerors set off to the rest of the empire, founding cities and overpowering their people. |
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The overpowering strength of the British fleet enabled it to occupy the Chesapeake and to attack and destroy numerous docks and harbours. |
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Sometimes its sky line was broken by an uptoss from some one overpowering blast. |
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But the overpowering sweetness and the syrupy mouthfeel didn't hit the spot for our tasters. |
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It also had just the right hit of golden syrup in the gungy topping, sweet with that distinctive Lyle's taste without being overpowering. |
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The chicken was pronounced tender and tasty and not too overpowering on flavour, praise indeed from the faddiest of the clan. |
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One has a feeling of having lived an overpowering, grand experience, an exhilarating wave of hyperreality. |
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Parramatta Eels' season has been ravaged by injury, and the Cowboys will be confident of overpowering the visitors up the middle. |
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Served with homemade pickles and beef grison, the fondue had a perfect ratio of white wine to cheese, neither ingredient overpowering the other. |
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A brutally candid account, narrated in the form of disjoint non-chronological yet overpowering personal memories. |
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The potato pancake is an excellent way of showing off the cod without overpowering the taste. |
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The overpowering supply and demand equation is heavily-weighted in favour of the bears, which is allowing them to continually block the bulls from making any countermoves. |
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The odor is best described as strongly penetrating, irritating, fatty, overpowering, currylike, heavy, spicy, warm, and persistent, even after drying out. |
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Unlike other oud perfumes, the labdanum absolute in this blend gives a smoky, leathery effect without leaving an overpowering note from the strength of oud. |
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This advantage in manpower was vital in overpowering the crews of larger vessels, which themselves often lacked sufficient crewmembers to put up a strong defence. |
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