Word: overwhelm
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...architect as protagonist versus serving as background. We’ve tried to make the architecture a partner to the art.” The architecture isn’t meant to be ignored, and while it certainly complements some of the larger, more powerful pieces, it tends to overwhelm the more delicate works. As the weather changes outside, the experience within ICA will also change, to an extent surpassed only by the recently reopened L’Orangerie in Paris, where Monet’s water lilies are in a constant state of flux due to changes...
...agent. She certainly delivers a skillfully articulated comic turn: fast, physical, full of double-takes, grimaces, sidelong shudders and other nonverbal expressions of barely suppressed hysteria. But White seems to have simmered a bit too long in her critical raves; it's a look-at-me performance that simply overwhelms the play. On the other hand, this is a play that is painfully easy to overwhelm...
...short term, overwhelm Iraq with an information campaign that declares that the U.S. will establish no permanent bases in Iraq, and will be out in a year. And make clear that the issue of sustained aid to Iraq will be dependent on their willingness to reconcile differences and quell the insurgency...
Some places on earth are simply too big to photograph: the Grand Canyon, the Great Wall, Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Those monuments don't fit in any frame; they were made--by God or man--to overwhelm. You can visit them, snap some shots, but something is missing when you get back home. So how do you capture a country with 300 million independently minded and moving pieces? Who would even...
...however, counters that while Ban “is not a man who is going to overwhelm you with a sparkling set of new ideas, as you see him and talk to him at greater length, you see that while his style is diplomatic, underneath it’s very thoughtful...