#overwhelming

I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment. ↗

— Donal Logue

#billion #bowl #called #crowd #environment

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things. ↗

— Yann Martel

#how #imagined #might #movie #out

He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#candidate #candidates #court #extremely #group

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#claim #culture #deepest #derive #existence

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#am #being #certain #certain extent #compared

His resonating stare fluttered through my memory, and I shivered. I hadn’t seen kindness in his pupils. I only saw intensity, and, I hated to admit it, but he was beyond intimidating. He was overwhelming. (Jessica) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#gaze #intensity #intimidating #love #overwhelming

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#gravity #lick #overwhelming #paperwork #sometimes

At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins. ↗

— Steven Chu

#brothers #came #cousins #emotions #entering

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

#compelling #constitution #fulfilled #guarantees #here

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#citizen #civilisation #difficult #europe #evidence