Word: alarmistic
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When Roiphe alleges that date-rape awareness and campus safety lights create a climate of anxiety where none existed, she implies that fear of rape is irrational hysteria, churned up by frantic activists. But women do get raped, and being aware of one's vulnerability is prudent, not alarmist...
...long way in enabling the implementation of stricter scrutiny and more stringent environmental laws. The apocalyptic nightmare of a devastated landscape and the continent-wide lowering of environmental standards presented by the more radical environmentalist factions may make for good theater, but that vision is patently false and unnecessarily alarmist...
...Shetlands accident and its aftermath demonstrate the remarkable ability of nature to repair itself -- even when confronted by an oil spill, one of humanity's more dangerous assaults on Mother Earth. The incident also shows that oil spills are not all the same; alarmist forecasts of ecological devastation, which invariably come after a big spill, are often off the mark...
Maybe it isn't surprising that the first big menopause books to greet the baby boomers are so morbid and alarmist. A book titled Menopause: No Big Deal might better describe the experience of a generation of busy, high-achieving women. But it probably wouldn't leap off the shelves...
High hopes for the Liberal Democrats also proved unfounded. Expected to siphon off blue-collar and middle-class votes from both major rivals, the party instead ended up losing two of its 22 seats. The disappointing showing owed much to alarmist Tory warnings that a vote for the Liberal Democrats would be tantamount to a vote for Labour, since a hung Parliament would surely result in a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition. British voters did not want the uncertainty of either a minority or coalition government. Voters may also have become convinced -- Ross Perot, take note -- that a vote...