Word: overwhelmed
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...lengthy a legal journey-an "exhausting, self-lacerating investment of time and energy," as the A.C.L.U.'S Henry Schwarzschild describes it-is no easy task. "It's so desperate you take whom you can get," explains Morris. Indeed, the shortage of qualified attorneys threatens to overwhelm Morris and others like her because the nation's death row population, now totaling some 570, is climbing by almost 100 people a year.* Eighty percent of the prisoners mark their time in the states of the Old Confederacy; Georgia has the largest number per capita in the country. While most...
...seem far off target. Taylor's voice is deep and apparently inexhaustible. Working variations on a biblical theme ("Create in me a clean heart, O God"), he artfully circles around his subject, now lulling the listeners into serenity, now rising to majestic sincerity in stately cadences that overwhelm as much with their sound as with their meaning. Taylor says that for him a sermon is a journey. "I like to start with a cool introduction to suggest what I'm going to say, without giving away the secret." But when the secret is out and the climax...
Gene Roddenberry, who produced both the series and The Motion Picture, promised that the optical effects in the movie would not overwhelm the idealism that made Star Trek popular as a television show. Roddenberry apparently reneged on his promise. The special effects are not particularly wondrous, although publicity materials for the film claim that special effects wizards Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind and John Dykstra (Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica) created the effects with the most sophisticated equipment ever devised for such work...
...first reaction of the survivor, says Barbeau, is "psychic numbing," a defense mechanism that keeps him or her functioning. Then the full horror of the crash pokes through, fades again, and gradually comes to overwhelm the victim. Like many flight attendants, Arlene Feroe, who survived an Alaska Airlines accident, ran around the hospital for days apologizing to injured passengers. Another attendant drove his automobile into a tree during a hallucination; he "saw" a colleague who died in a plane crash sitting beside...
...Some scholars have argued that it is more convenient to centralize presidential collections, rather than scatter them across the nation in what Columbia Historian Henry Graff terms "the pyramids of our times." Yet, as the National Archives points out, a quadrennial flood of documents by the millions would probably overwhelm any single institution. Also, as one Government archivist concedes, "not all scholars live in Washington...