Word: whelming
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...They surged past the rounded bales of hay. The dusty land roiled beneath the horses’ hooves; The Stable Boy left a white and turbid wake. The envious billows of reeds swelled to whelm Felicity’s track...
...hocus-pocus scene which is badly out of step with the simple poetry of the production. Wilson seems to believe so fiercely in the powers of imagination that he is ultimately trapped by them. He's a visionary, poetic playwright and at times his vision seems to over-whelm...
...tells the story with such mastery of his craft, and such freshness. Like the capitalist he caricatures, he leaves nothing to chance, but leaves one struggling to plum a multi-layered text whose overtones expand and recede in too many directions. His extensive philosophic dialogues over-whelm the characters who engage in them so earnestly (yet so easily...
Then the music and the fireworks over whelm you and you feel something you don't expect, the shivers, and this time it's not the cold...
...towels up around their faces to conceal them from the members of the press and the old black men lounging in the shade of a melt-your-polyester-shirt-by-seven August morning. Yes, this was it, this was the Big Time Under the Big Top, Perspire Under the Whelm as it were; this was It, the Big Meltdown. Perhaps it should be explained, start at the beginning, linear like, a very good place to start as Julie Andrews informed us in the dawn of our existence back in those sweaty movie theatres of Pittsburgh and Grosse Point and Santa...