Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I first came to college, just four months after the attack, my parents and I were worried that the experience might have undermined my confidence in managing on my own. We were uncertain whether adjusting to a new environment so early in the healing process would overwhelm me and compromise my goals. Although I have occasional nightmares and some physical reactions to being startled, I have not let the attack control my life and I am proud of what I have accomplished...
...straight-faced drama, providing some startlingly memorable moments: Kirk Hanson '99 as the apothecary Cerimon, hamming it up as he restores the drowned queen Thaisa to life ("She's ALIIIIVE!"); Michael Roiff '01 as the whorehouse Bawd, camping it up in a drag performance so broad it threatens to overwhelm everyone else on stage; and, of course, the constantly intrusive pirates, who are always guaranteed to provoke a laugh...
...rights is a matter of justice, a clear test of whether we will allow "distaste" to overwhelm "right" and "reasonable." I dread the implications of failure. JONATHAN F. DRESNER, GSAS April...
...Sometimes this is due to a lack of minorities in a particular class. But the issue of race also seems to be erased at the classroom door. When I am sitting in class with others and we're both reading the sourcebook, trying to understand the material, these connections overwhelm racial differences. The shared academic experience, in the pursuit of common knowledge, becomes more important than skin color...
...illustrate the scale and impact of such a building, I submit my drawing (see below) of a possible structure showing that it would not only overwhelm the two wooden Greek Revival mansions and the Swedenborgian Church, but would cast them in complete shadow most...