Castillo's passion for baseball and catching eventually overwhelmed his mother's fears, as well as his own offensive struggles.

But his passions could overwhelm his interest in anything else.

As for John McCain, he spoke about how the "passion for self-expression sometimes overwhelms our civility."

His passion for the project overwhelmed me and outweighed all the negative factors.

When Nixon gets frustrated or enraged at the person he is thinking about, the monologue often becomes disjointed; the passion overwhelms Nixon's ability for words.

And his passion for the Constitution has overwhelmed any inkling of a private life.

His passion to get to Kahlan overwhelmed all other thought.

I went for the flash and the feel and let the passion of love-at-first-sight overwhelm any objectivity I should have been able to muster.

Sometimes the passion of his opinion overwhelms the logic behind it.

But it had better redefine the ends and means of affirmative action before passion overwhelms all reason.