Word: overblown
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...death of the President was recorded in several still photographs and on three film strips-though only one of the strips, owned by LIFE, shows the episode in full detail. Nevertheless, the moment of tragedy is represented here in a single frozen frame that shows Kennedy as an overblown blur...
...white downtown New Yorker who has grown weary and annoyed with a deluge of overblown, excited and conflicting newspaper reports on "those uptown riots," I was startled and shaken to read your Harlem story [July 31]. Your clear and unsentimental reporting on the recent events had me applauding your integrity. It was the most poignant and powerful piece of writing I've read anywhere on the subject...
Verbose Irrelevance. Such overblown nonsense was greeted by jeers from the opposition bench in Parliament. But even Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd himself could not have been entirely pleased. He had, after all, expected something else: a hatchet job on his press critics at home. Verwoerd had not asked for a broadside against the foreign press, nor had he requested concrete proposals of any sort...
...Golding's metaphors tend to defeat his purpose. They fail in the long descriptions due to overabundance (in two pages of storm description one sees cosmic wildcats, black crows, sails, masts, stone shoulders, Satan, and clouds of devils). And often they fail to evoke anything because they are simply overblown ("the sunrays wheeled about him;" "the spark and shatter...
...ascertained from Stratford town records and a handful of references to him by folk in Elizabethan London can easily be (and, in fact, are) completely set down in a few columns of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But for decades scholars have felt compelled to spin these few threads into an overblown fabric of speculation which the academic world charitably describes as literary biography. The latest offender is a brilliant and bumptious Cornishman named A. L. Rowse...