Word: overwhelmer
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...retainer. "Well," comments Papa, "it's a hell of a way to learn the joys of fatherhood." Such scenes are punctuated by the ominous overhead rumbling of airplane engines, as the characters stare toward the heavens, reminded of the irony and irrevocability of fate. The white corpuscles finally overwhelm Pascal's tiny body on Christmas Eve, and Papa discovers him, head hidden by the pine branches, expired under the Christmas tree. Still another airplane engine blasts across the sound track as Papa picks up Pascal and carries him offscreen. Viewers may have to be assisted...
...through the Rome airport during Toby's arrival, catching glimpses of bizarre travelers bathed in demonic orange light, their bodies contorted into poses that are parodies of reality. Indeed, there is almost too much in Never for a short film. Fellini's sometimes prodigal genius threatens to overwhelm the story, which he apparently agreed to do only on the advice of his astrologer. But even to such journeyman projects, Fellini brings the kind of stylistic prestidigitation that has made him one of the world's greatest film makers...
...willing to return to a Jewish state. Nevertheless, the U.S. urges a plebiscite offering a choice of return or compensation. The fedayeen would doubtless make the outcome meaningless by turning out a sizable yes vote in order to prove that the Palestinian issue is still volcanic, and threaten to overwhelm Israel with Arabs...
...director working today takes such evident joy as Truffaut in the process of film making, and he makes the feeling infectious. Although he freezes the image in the middle of an action or plays with enlarging the size of the frame, Truffaut makes technique serve the story and never overwhelm it. He enjoys staging little jokes (the tea-drinking scene with the owner's wife is an unabashed tribute to Hitchcock), but they remain always in context. Many of the characters in Stolen Kisses and much of the action may be embellished, but it is all based and modeled...
...mystic sorrow. For Danny's house was not unlike the Round Table, and Danny's friends were not unlike the knights." In 1952's East of Eden, the Biblical parallels of Cain and Abel are so relentlessly stenciled upon the plot that symbolized meaning threatens to overwhelm the narrative surface...