Mark Manson

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.

American Author

James E. Faust

We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.

American Clergyman

Jean Hanff Korelitz

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.

American Novelist

Jan Koum

We're not interested in bombarding our users with, 'Hey, play this game, play this game, play this game.' It gets annoying, it gets in the way of messaging, and it gets in the way of staying in touch with people who are important to you.

American Businessman

Alain de Botton

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

English Writer

Juergen Teller

I always work with two cameras. Its kind of like I'm hypnotizing the subject with the flashing. It's a bombardment of action, flashes, and I think it helps them to ease into the process.

German Photographer

Mark Ruffalo

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.

American Actor

Tim Murphy

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

Canadian Politician

Kyrie Irving

I do have a chef, but I still go out. Sometimes I can still blend in, and sometimes I get a little bombarded. It's the best of both worlds.

American Athlete

Saul Bass

We are truly bombarded by images. To break through and be observed, let alone focused on, you have to have impact and power.

American Designer

Used to describe aggressive military action using explosives.

Military Action

Sometimes used figuratively to describe a relentless action or experience.

Figurative Use

Indicates a deluge of non-physical things, like ideas or messages.

Sensory Overload

Implies that the person is overwhelmed by what's happening.

Feeling Overwhelmed

Refers to an ancient weapon, not commonly known today.

Historical Weapon

This meaning of 'bombard' is archaic and rarely used in modern contexts.

Obsolete Term

A historical musical instrument similar to a bassoon.

Medieval Music

Associated with Breton music and culture.

Cultural Specificity

 Don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize; it does. She was eight years old, our first day of grade three when she got called ugly. We both got moved to the back of class so we would stop getting bombarded by spitballs.

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 but he makes it clear that he's not there in his capacity as journalist, but as a neighbor who wants to help. I ask him what he thinks we should do, given the bombardment of local media interview requests. He offers to set up a press conference at a local community center.

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 They kind of bombard us and equip our mind with a lot of strange ideas, and on top of it we put the very thing that makes us humans, our human intuition. It was good in evolution. It helped us generalize and jump to conclusions very, very fast.

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 Some are small and unimportant, but others have a larger impact on our lives. For example, which politician should I vote for? Should I try the latest diet craze? Or will email make me a millionaire? We're bombarded with so many decisions

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 also getting bombarded Jason I believe that chameleons are territorial and I don't think that this chameleon wouldn't allow another chameleon to come and join him on his particular tree and as I said I'm not quite sure if it's a male or

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 Cancer cells are masters of adaptation, adjusting their molecular and cellular characteristics to survive under stress. When they're bombarded by radiation or chemotherapy, some cancer cells can effectively switch on protective shields

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 and then cosmic rays and U.V. bombarded the surface and water escaped to space and went underground. So if we want to be able to understand, if we want to be able to find those traces of the signatures of life

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 the party or she would say after the belly dancer everyone will go home it was total bombardment so the following morning what would happen is I would confront her about the situation and it was as

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 fluoresce is a scientific mystery but it might be one way they've evolved to deal with the intensity of the sunlight that's bombarding them the fluorescent pigments might be screening out some

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 We create categories to make sense of the world, to assert some control and coherence to the stimuli that we're constantly being bombarded with. Categorization and the bias that it seeds

Bombard