It is not, however, so crushingly tiresome as the music fitted to it. The responses given were often crushingly ascerbic and to the point. I was crushingly defeated by Sargon II at Lake Urmia. Nigeria had been saddled with a crushingly large international debt at this point. The Palatine peasants mobs were crushingly defeated at the Battle of Pfeddersheim on 23/24 June. In January 1578 he crushingly defeated the Protestants in the Battle of Gembloux. Finally, and most crushingly, Proust's beloved mother died in September 1905. The ALP was crushingly defeated in 1975. The journalist David Miller, writing for "The Times", described Cambridge's victory as "crushingly conclusive". Andrew Harrison of "Q" magazine called the film "crushingly stupid".