Word: overwhelms
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...received local pledges of $200,000 toward the $850,000 cost of the first season. Many proper Charlestonians. however, had doubts at the beginning, and a few still do. They are fond of their city as it is and well aware that an annual cultural bazaar like Spoleto can overwhelm a small city -the jazz festival engulfed Newport, R.I., for years. Nor were Charlestonians reassured by reports that some money raised in the U.S. was to be set aside for the Italian festival. That was initially a problem, concedes Menotti, but the misunderstanding has been resolved...
...arenas of politics, finances, science, engineering and sociology. He moves through his subject like one of those 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovels that gnawed their way across Panama. Facts are turned up by the cubic yard, sorted and arranged into a smooth, efficient narrative. Statistics sometimes tend to overwhelm the reader, but there are moments when numbers become all too human. Said one West Indian laborer about the frequent dynamite accidents: "The flesh of men flew in the air like birds many days...
...played a minor role-was a well-planned hoax, he preferred to suppose that "someone innocently threw the bone fragments from a neighborhood cottage into the ditch." In his philosophy, evil was to be endured as part of inevitable progress toward good. Sometimes, in fact, his optimism could overwhelm his apprehension of evil; once during a debate that covered the Nazi experiments at Dachau, he told an astonished audience that "man, to become fully man, must have tried everything to the very...
...embarassment of riches offered by the Magic Movies series threatens to overwhelm the viewer at times. A dozen shorts in quick succession results in so many visual images that they tend to blur together by the end of the show. An intermission which breaks the program into two halves helps somewhat and the atmosphere at the Off-the-Wall theater (which is also a coffee house and photo gallery) is low-keyed and convivial. Until short subjects become a regular part of movie theater programming, Off-the-Wall's approach is the most rewarding, if exhausting, way to see these...
...period of seemingly clear-cut divisions, we saw little need for an explicit definition of the national interest. We saw economic problems around the world of the kind we had solved successfully in our own country, and sought to overwhelm them with the weight of resources, assuming that economic progress automatically led to political stability. In short, without making a conscious design to do so, we were trying to shape the world to our design...