Word: overblown
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Fround said that the prayer cases had been overblown in popular understanding. What was actualy' decided is much less absolute than is commonly supposed, he said...
...full of chesty exchanged praises for each other's work-"please send by return boastage," Frost punned to Untermeyer in 1921-as well as attacks on both the free-versers and traditional poets who still did not understand that poetry once and for all must turn away from overblown rhetoric to the language of common speech...
...Birminghams and Harlems in the nation and the world, most Negroes still do not know his name. He is a nervous, slight, almost fragile figure, filled with frets and fears. He is effeminate in manner, drinks considerably, smokes cigarettes in chains, and he often loses his audience with overblown arguments. Nevertheless, in the U.S. today there is not another writer?white or black?who expresses with such poignancy and abrasiveness the dark realities of the racial ferment in North and South...
...production and staging stifled the opera's already limited action. A circular riser in the center of the stage grossly limited any movement and all poses became lifelessly statuesque, the acting of an overblown Christmas pageant...
...epic. But he wished to convey more monolithic artistic ideas than a narrative could portray, and so dispensed with distinct characters and made the story of the crossing of the Red Sea only the first half of the work. What then resulted is what one scholarly critic called "an overblown anthem"--a series of resounding proclamation of the Lord's might, many of them superb in their declamatory power--yet the whole work lacks drama...