Adjective : an overpowering conviction of the truth. From Dictionary.com.
Hudson Hurst was overpoweringly pleasant to Polly. From Wordnik.com. [Penalty]
Spring has exploded: the air is overpoweringly sweet. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
He was so big and overpoweringly male; he was a stranger. From Wordnik.com. [When the Lion Feeds]
He is neither particularly rosy nor overpoweringly cheerful. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
The anise flavour was definitely there but not overpoweringly so. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
She could not be so overpoweringly aware of him while he felt nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Snow Angels]
Not overpoweringly sauced, the pork flavor was what stood out the most. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
It had been overpoweringly hot in Bergass's room; Complain was dripping. From Wordnik.com. [Starship]
EXAMPLE - 911: Here, the who benefited question is overpoweringly clear. i.e. From Wordnik.com. [The Rock Thrown in the Pond - Who Profits?] Reference
It was not overpoweringly sweet and had the subtle smoky maple syrup fragrance. From Wordnik.com. [Kit Kat Maple Syrup] Reference
Not every name was overpoweringly saccharine, though none were familiar to Chad. From Wordnik.com. [Quozl]
Gervase, if not overpoweringly friendly, seemed ready for neutrality and a truce. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Money]
Why do I love such an overpoweringly sweet perfume as that and still hate Shalimar?. From Wordnik.com. [Luctor and Don't Emergo] Reference
The Vietnam invasion was overpoweringly evil and so is the current invasion of Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Fatal and Tragic Consequences] Reference
When the girl of to-day is not overpoweringly advanced, perhaps she is quite far behind. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
He came overpoweringly towards Desmond, his arm and stump spread wide as if to embrace him. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
It is only seventy miles from the equator, but it is neither unhealthy nor overpoweringly hot!. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
To come at the truth by observation about a foreign country is immensely, overpoweringly difficult. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
Cook 30 minutes - not much longer - the shrimp taste can be overpoweringly strong if cooked too long. From Wordnik.com. [Shrimp and Corn Chowder] Reference
He looked larger, more overpoweringly masculine in this small room than he had looked at Lord Barrie's. From Wordnik.com. [Ungrateful Governess]
He was much cleverer than most people thought, young Jimmy Stiles, and he was overpoweringly anxious to help the. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
The room contained only large wooden barrels held together with rusty bands, and stank overpoweringly of herring. From Wordnik.com. [Kendermore]
The air in the little square chamber above the bells was hot and stagnant, and smelt overpoweringly of pigeon dung. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
On every hand stretch the orange groves, great splashes of white and green, the scent from which is almost overpoweringly sweet. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
The power and enthusiasm of the man's spirit is so overpoweringly fresh, it is hard to even notice that the body is 79 years old. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Wald: Archbishop Tutu: Bravo, Your Excellency] Reference
This subtle critic, in her overpoweringly tender and enthusiastic review, had already inquired about the capacity of this writer. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Therefore neither with shield nor hand can he keep his ground, so overpoweringly from all sides comes upon him the storm of weapons. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
It was refined and optimistic; it was overpoweringly calm; it flowed on relentlessly, without one comma, till Babbitt was hypnotized. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
Putting on steam again, we recede from Bougie, and passing Djigelly, with its overpoweringly large barracks and hospital, doubling Cape. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
The history of his past life, as he had related it to her, appealed overpoweringly to all that was womanly and protective in her nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
(Travels, &, c.) is ill and pedantically written; but the account of his own sufferings on the rack at Malaga is overpoweringly affecting. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
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