Both Uses
onslaught
in
The Book Thief
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- For Liesel Meminger, there was the imprisoned stiffness of movement and the staggered onslaught of thoughts.†
p. 21.6 *onslaught = powerful attack; or sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled
- Many jocular comments followed, as did another onslaught of "heil Hitlering."†
p. 111.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(onslaught) a powerful attack
or:
a sudden and enormous amount of something that must be handled -- such as trouble, people or communications - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)