Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Murray-Herrnstein tract is simply the credo of white supremacy dressed up in raggedy pseudo-scientific garb. The book--and the reception it has received in so-called respectable circles--is a clear manifestation of the continuing power of racism and of the evil virus's continuing effort to overwhelm white America's psychic struggle to live up to its proclaimed allegiance to humanism and opportunity for all. Lee A. Daniels Fellow, W.E.B. DubBois Institute for Afro-American Research Preceptor, Expository Writing Program
...Still/Here a hospital visit instead of a work of art? Does the real-life pathos of the videotapes overwhelm any possible aesthetic response by the audience? Jones doesn't think so. He feels that people know they're watching dance and not documentary. "When I go to talk sessions after my performances," he says, "people want to know about specifics. They want to know about the history of modern dance...
...Irish writer who hasn't tackled it. Yet in Felicia's Journey (Viking; 213 pages), William Trevor makes his heroine's plight and flight seem entirely original. Which is exactly the way it appears to Felicia, who has never had to deal with the sorts of problems that overwhelm her now. What is an unmarried pregnant girl to do? Where is her Johnny, who told her he loved her? During his visit home to see his mother, when the affair occurred, he said something about working in sales at a lawn-mower factory near Birmingham, England, so that is where...
Which is exactly the way it appears to Felicia, who has never had to deal with the sorts of problems that overwhelm her now. What is an unmarried pregnant girl to do? Where is her Johnny, who told her he loved her? During his visit home to see his mother, when the affair occurred, he said something about working in sales at a lawn-mower factory near Birmingham, England, so that is where she goes. But no one can tell her where such a factory might be. And almost the first person she asks proves to be an unfortunate choice...
...hero suddenly starts coughing up blood. Death, which until now has been a second baseman to be charged, spiked and upended, is not going to drop the ball this time. It is a new experience for Ty Cobb. He has never encountered anything his psychopathic aggressiveness couldn't overwhelm. Tommy Lee Jones's utterly incautious performance -- he's pure attack dog -- permits his character a moment of naked panic. Then he looks in the mirror and accepts his fate, and calmly calls the hospital...