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The revelation of which we speak is less like the communication of knowledge than the presentation of an irresistible lure that overpowers the will.
Here, then, is the city as labyrinthine process - overpowering the senses, revealing no pattern.
We can be enveloped and overpowered by sound, so that the boundaries between self and other seem to become less fixed.
Cuts were made in the floor and roof, producing an overpowering sense of danger.
However so many of the convicted were engulfed by the physical overpowering the psychological.
I could no longer control my overpowering need to run, to fly, to leave far behind me those threatening streets.
In this vein he was also instructed to educe the demon's name when confronting it, as a prerequisite for overpowering it.
The outline of the improvisatory environment suggests that interaction between roles and attitudes occurs at a level that overpowers the exchange of content itself.
The latter, a secret society leader, overpowered the former in terms of authority and influence.
In general, the more persecutory and overpowering the reality principles of racism, the more likely it is that they will be" totalized" in this way.
Since then there had been an overpowering sense of being directionless; since then he had been immensely alone in the tainted photo.
He did not have all that much direct scientific influence on my work, but his personality is certainly overpowering, and the indirect influence is enormous.
The mastiff and bull-dog he fights have been tempered by man into ferocious fighting creatures, yet the natural integrity of the badger overpowers them.
However, this may generate ethical (clinically overpowered) and financial problems for randomized trials.
Tribes may have overpowered another eventually, causing some form of unification but the victors may have dominated over the other tribes.
In these works the teeth signify helplessness and fear, as the victim is overpowered from within as well as from without.
The dullest developments, the most perplexed transactions, statistics of overpowering dreariness, were all reduced to a brisk narrative, enlivened by wit, paradox and a sharp eye for human foibles.
I said at the beginning of this letter that we must find for this act something which gives variety and a little brio to the overpowering darkness of the drama.
His juxtaposition of the clinical term "effluvia" here with the sensational, visceral descriptors "revolting," "sickening," and "overpowering" seeks to prompt a similarly powerful response in his reader.
Lack of apparent decomposability could just as well be due to the strength of these bodies' affinity with oxygen overpowering the strength of the chemist's efforts.
Since even highly functionally diverse rain forests can be invaded, it suggests that the effect of high functional diversity may also be overpowered by sufficient exotic propagule pressure.
The guard, consisting of a corporal and six men, were overpowered and tied up.
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We have had outposts overpowered here and there, but, on the whole, the line has been held exceedingly well.
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I think the other potential benefits are small compared with this one overpowering benefit.
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They were overpowered when their ammunition gave out.
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The task of administration is an overpowering one.
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I think that in itself will be overpowering.
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They overpowered the guards and stole a large quantity of arms and ammunition from the armoury.
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The impulse behind the trade is almost as overpowering as its scale.
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Because, unfortunately, the forum was overpowered by very specific and special issues.
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Even in war time it is possible for a camp to be overpowered.
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The next one is locker broke, tubs overpowered him.
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If it is possible to reduce them, let us do so, unless there are overpowering arguments to the contrary.
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The men succeeded in overpowering the soldiers, but the raid was not a success.
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The police were easily overpowered, and loss of life and destruction occurred because troops were not available in time to deal with these disturbances.
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Many people feel overpowered by the scale of their estates and remote from the management of them.
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They were overpowered and their arms were taken from them.
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I could see the ceilings and walls covered with cobwebs and the smell from the place was overpowering.
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I have in mind the possibility of claims for negligence being made by workmen who may be overpowered.
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The driver and his mate were overpowered and tied to trees; and the gang then drove off in the lorry, which was later found abandoned.
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Transport is of overpowering importance, and the railways have a vital part to play in the whole set-up.
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One prisoner was being returned with an escort from the shower room when several prisoners attacked the police officers and succeeded in overpowering them.
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We whose interests are overpowering, may be excused if we ask that the matter should be conducted with a little more deliberation.
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Eventually the youths overpowered her and went away with her handbag without being apprehended.
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The third is devolving to local level as much power and responsibility as possible from what has been a rather overpowering bureaucracy.
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I was not prepared to be so overpowered in my day.
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To a family, its sense of isolation and helplessness when a child is first identified as having a disability, is overpowering.
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The internal political pressure against such policies would be overpowering.
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Half the crowd attempted to rush the body by surprise into the city and overpowered the police.
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The party was attacked and overpowered by a strong force of strikers.
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In fact, speaking as a back bencher, some of us on this side became almost overpowered by the scent of the flowers which were being thrown about.
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They have left me with nothing to do but to underline some of the more salient and, in my view, overpowering arguments that they have used.
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The argument against them was overpowering.
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They have physically overpowered staff.
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Scully is overpowered and is thrown into the grave.
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She overpowers the truck's driver, diverting it out onto an empty bridge before it overturns.
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The effect was dizzying, and it ultimately overpowers the mind of the viewer leaving them in a vegetative state.
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Certainly its dimensions tend to overpower formal constraints.
The toxicity of its venom is not known, but it overpowers its prey quickly.
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Eventually, this pulling force overpowers the electro-magnetic and surface adhesion forces between the particles and charging pad.
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He overpowers her and locks her in her own closet.
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He attacked security guards and then was overpowered by devotees, who handed him over to the police.
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Agitation overpowers one strong in energy and weak in concentration, since energy favours agitation.
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I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me.
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The song contains string accents described as sympathetic, but not overpowering.
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Ten convicts overpowered two of the guards and broke free from the prison walls.
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He starts breaking her confidence, then dominates and overpowers her.
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He overpowered all of his opponents with a solid display of tennis and did not drop a set throughout the whole tournament.
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Awaiting trial, he overpowered the jailer and stole a horse.
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They are overpowered by demons in near-human form, depicted in colours of every shade of decomposing flesh.
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Rasputin overpowers her and puts her in a deep trance.
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Then one day, they escape the jail by overpowering the guards.
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They began a revolt, overpowered the guards, and freed him.
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As hits are exchanged, it seems that the armies of the two planets are overpowered.
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He shows us a world in which cultures fuse with some, overpowering and contaminating others.
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The three men attempt an escape but are swiftly and easily overpowered by the large group of women and eventually anesthetized.
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Though she was not at all swayed by the threat, she was overpowered by her desire to observe the results.
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In the cave where the dragon resides, they fight him but are quickly overpowered.
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Two guards were playing cards with them, and the men overpowered them and walked out of the unlocked cell block.
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In spite of the grandeur of the interior decoration, the interior of the house is not overpowering.
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Legend claims that he overpowered "maras" and heretics by engaging them in intellectual arguments and also by performing miracles.
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One of the reasons was that each subsequent expansion of cards greatly overpowered the previous sets (see power creep).
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If the cloud moved away from his village without discharging hail, it meant that the "oblaar" had overpowered the "adaja" and its retinue.
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The string-modelled clank sounds are used infrequently in the piece, like an exotic, strong spice that could overpower if your hand slipped.
The wind that overpowered the other three, would be dominant in the ensuing year.
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In this context, they became a powerful foreign force that threatened to overpower, even absorb, the national organism.
The conquerors set off to the rest of the empire, founding cities and overpowering their people.
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Similarly, weak dorsiflexors are overpowered by stronger plantarflexors, causing a plantarflexed first metatarsal and anterior pes cavus.
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Art, literature, and custom - the raw material of a liberal education - can overpower any objective aesthetic.
His strong playing often overpowered the singer whom he accompanied.
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One major question he does not quite answer for us is why patriarchal traditions would overpower matriarchal ones.
The shiki retaliate, but are soon overpowered and retreat further into the pipeline, which leads into a dead end crawl space.
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He realizes what she is doing just in time, however, and overpowers her, injecting her during the struggle.
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The colonial forces quickly overpowered the remaining insurgents.
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While he was able to remain continent for a while, eventually his burning desire overpowered him.
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He found some success at the local club levels despite the grossly overpowered, unrefined engine.
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Large arthropods are injected with venom but are usually overpowered by brute strength before the venom has immobilized them.
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The question is why did it bring her joy, whatever it was must have overpowered the creepy factor.
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The enemy was overpowered, and some positions were captured.
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