Young Chuang watched, feeling a sudden, overpowering sense of disappointment.

David stood there, filled with an overpowering sense of relief.

Gradually an overpowering sense of pointlessness began to affect American life.

And - overlaying everything - an overpowering sense of incomprehension.

He had come back, and an overpowering sense of dread swept through him.

There was an overpowering sense of gloom at the office.

Maybe someone had cut a finger, but I had an overpowering sense that something was wrong.

He moaned, covering his eyes against an overpowering sense of loss.

It was nothing really definable, just an overpowering sense of presence, an aura that no human had.

I got the same overpowering sense of mortality when I went to my old school reunion last week.