Flannery makes a different mistake, sometimes overreaching in his attempt to make an absolutely overwhelming case.

The first couple of days it was absolutely overwhelming, we would stop and politely say no, they would keep on talking, etc, etc.

His presence was absolutely overwhelming to both men and women.

American doctrine in the gulf war, however, called for an absolutely overwhelming force, even against an Iraqi enemy that collapsed in the first hours.

As Gottfried Landwehr had so many friends and colleagues all over the world the response to his death is absolutely overwhelming.

"This is absolutely overwhelming," Smith said later.

"The work being done here is absolutely overwhelming," he said.

"It has been absolutely overwhelming," she said.

He had an absolutely overwhelming amount of good will.

All Provence erupted with a plague that, to her, was absolutely overwhelming.