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"It reflects Korean food culture, where visual overwhelmingness matters more than balance or harmony of ingredients and flavours," food critic Lee Yong-jae told The Chosun Daily.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026

“I mean, just the overwhelmingness of this whole experience,” he said.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2018

This is exceedingly fine also, and wonderful as a variation upon that awful music; but Cain is the astonishment and the overwhelmingness.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri

We mauruuru'd with repeated nui's which conveyed the largeness and overwhelmingness of our thanks.

From The Cruise of the Snark by London, Jack