6 sentences with 'overwhelming'
Example sentences and phrases with the word overwhelming and other words derived from it.
• « The eastern Roman armies had to fend off threats and hold the frontiers, but they did not face the overwhelming odds of their western Roman counterparts. »
• « Also, Gothic architecture tended to be bulky and overwhelming rather than refined and delicate; the great examples of Gothic architecture are undoubtedly the cathedrals built during the Middle Ages, often beautiful and inspiring but far removed from the airy, symmetrical structures of ancient Greece and Rome. »
• « Its version of absolutism, centred on the authority of the king, the rights of the nobles and an overwhelming focus on the military, proved effective in transforming it from a backwater into Austria's only serious rival for dominance in Central Europe. »
• « At the same time, European industrial power was overwhelming compared to the rest of the world except the United States from the last decades of the 19th century, from about 1860 to 1914. »
• « For the Romantics, nature was a vast and overwhelming presence, against which the activities of humanity were ultimately insignificant. »
• « Lives were transformed for the better by consumerism and medical advances, but many Europeans still found the sheer speed of change overwhelming and threatening. »