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

2.   Viduka benefited from an overpowering sense of Olympic pride and spirit.

3.   Conservative intellectuals spent a very long time feeling marginalized, and when reading NR or TAS one still gets an overpowering sense of insularity and preaching to the converted.

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

5.   The overpowering sense of responsibility drove Arthur Hays Sulzberger to an addiction to prescription drugs.