Word: overwhelm
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...depicted in Genesis 1, and the second Adam, depicted in Genesis 2. The first Adam boldly subdues the earth, while the second Adam humbly quests for God. Both Adams exist within each person and are mandated by God, Soloveitchik holds, but in modern times the first Adam threatens to overwhelm the second, and has even become "demonic." When the second Adam begins to speak the language of faith, writes the Rav, he "finds himself lonely, forsaken, misunderstood, at times even ridiculed by Adam the first, by himself...
...holding him accountable, many whites were unsettled by his soaring prominence. They scrutinized his calls for racial pride, looking for overt signs of racism. Unfortunately, Jackson provided one. A foolish and offensive remark, spoken in an unguarded moment, set off a chain of events that threatened to overwhelm Jackson's accomplishments with controversy and bitterness...
...corollary to the dogma of "offense-dominated" deterrence is that there is nothing more provocative and destabilizing than a strategic defense. The more one superpower tries to protect itself against attack, the more the other side will try to improve its offensive weapons to be sure it can overwhelm and thwart those defenses. Thus a defensive arms race will exacerbate and accelerate the offensive one, with the advantage always remaining with the offense...
Shultz accepts that such failures are an inevitable part of his job. But any U.S. leader, he believes, must take these types of risks or the world will overwhelm us. "I think the Lebanon situation was one that we almost necessarily had to get into," says Shultz. "So we didn't succeed in attaining the objectives that we sought, but we haven't failed completely either." In short, the willingness to try was an important part of the policy...
...such lack of pretensions makes Death of a Harvard Freshman effective and amusing even to readers who have and will never be able to confirm Silver's lyrical description in the ravioli in the Freshman Union. Rather than letting Harvard overwhelm her story, Silver keeps her view affectionately mocking, her landscape tiny. Jane Austen once described her own novels as etchings on a square inch of ivory, rather than canvases to dominate a room. That strategy, it seems, could only help the vast majority of Harvard novelists...