Bayard Taylor

Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

American Journalist

Noam Chomsky

Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I'm sure it's illegal. It's also an effort to undermine free speech.

American Activist

Johan Rockstrom

Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean stores more heat, providing more fuel for hurricanes. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, bringing dangerous deluges. Rising sea levels threaten coastal zones.

Environmentalist

Patrick Whitesell

We're in the service business by nature, but when we can transition that into ownership things, we love it. Our clients love it, too. We get deluged with offers to get involved with this or that. Silver Lake helps us funnel those opportunities.

American Businessman

Noreena Hertz

Employees speak of being fearful opening emails and feeling increasingly helpless in the face of the deluge. Physiologically, we now know that the state of continuous disruption puts us into a constant state of hormone-induced stress.

English Author

Hillary Clinton

When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and culture of each destination, so those took up most of my reading time.

American Politician

Ian Ziering

I can't tell you the deluge of images that were sent to me through all the different social media platforms of families partying together... enjoying 'Sharknado.

American Actor

David McCandless

Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.

British Journalist

Horace Mann

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

American Educator

Cathy Engelbert

You cannot be insightful if you're deluged with information.

American Businesswoman

Use 'deluge' to describe an overwhelming quantity, suggesting difficulty in handling it all.

Overwhelming Quantity

'Deluge' implies a sudden and possibly unexpected influx of something.

Sudden Onset

'Deluge' is often used figuratively to discuss abstract things, like information or emotions.

Figurative Use

In weather context, 'deluge' describes an intense, heavy rainfall, often causing floods.

Weather Context

A 'deluge' of rain usually suggests a sudden downpour, catching people unprepared.

Unexpected Event

When used as a verb, 'deluge' implies causing someone to receive a lot of things at once.

Active Overloading

'Deluge' suggests that the quantity is excessive or more than one can manage.

Expressing Excess

The 'Deluge' commonly refers to the great flood in the story of Noah's Ark.

Biblical Reference

Using 'Deluge' with a capital D can allude to historical or mythological great floods.

Historic Allusion

 and acknowledge that that's the case. The second thing I think emotional sobriety would require of me right now is to recognize that this is going to be a marathon, not a sprint. And so the first week of the crisis, I had this deluge of all my really energized, let's-save-the-world friends, all my creative friends,

It's OK to feel...

 and a deluge of magazines can confuse people's minds. The next pieces of work show how I made myself invisible in magazines of different languages, in different countries and at different times. I think that in art, an artist's attitude is the most important element.

Liu Bolin: The invisible...

 except that she wore clothes that were a little old for her and she wore makeup. The Times was deluged with criticism. Initially, it defended itself, and said, "These aren't our views. This is what we found in our reporting." Now, here's a secret you probably know

Megan Kamerick: Women...

 In addition, little incentive exists to publish results unsupportive of the expected hypothesis. That results in a deluge of agreement between what was expected and what was found. In rare occasions, this can even lead to deliberate fabrication,

Is there a reproducibilit...

 But as they tried to look inside the gourd, they dropped it. The gourd broke apart, releasing a deluge that swept the brothers away, separating them from the celestial lands forever. The waters from the gourd formed a new world.

The Taino myth of the...

 so there will be deluges when water is not required and droughts will be very common, when water is desperately required. In short, Asia's water tower will be broken, and that will be disastrous for one-fifth of humanity.

An urgent call to...

 flesh that can't get water so this pan will do the same unfortunately so we do have to watch out we have to conserve water we are unlikely to get a proper deluge before the end of the year and so

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 new combustion burns without the old ecological checks-and-balances burns day and night winter in summer through drought and deluge for a long time the question the human quest for fire

How fire shapes...

 it's still experts that we rely upon most -- especially when the stakes are high and the decision really matters. Because in a world of data deluge and extreme complexity,

Noreena Hertz: How to...

 become today's star attractions they leave the roost with a clear mission on their collective mind a deluge of birds now descends on the ripe grass seeds