Word: overblown
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What Roth discovered in Letting Go was a great prairie of writing space. "It was like being an artist and discovering a big canvas. It was the most exhilarating writing experience I ever had." Updike, who is a miniaturist, calls Roth's novel "overblown," but what limits the book to partial success is not its great size. Rather it is Roth's treatment of his hero, a tedious young English instructor who looks within himself and finds the world empty. Roth chose to write of this frail spirit in the first person, and trapped himself by accepting...
...ruefully explained, "that biting's no use." Eventually, he retired to the country for his health under the care of a proper Victorian solicitor-scholar named Theodore Watts-Dunton. And the world, learning that his poetic passions had been mainly pastiche, soon decided his passionate poetry was merely overblown...
...even tougher than Ike's. He had the men and he had the equipment. I had to find both." See CINEMA, Operation Overblown...
...facets of U.S. life have been debated more aggressively in recent years than the phenomenon that has come to be called "Madison Avenue.'' Advertising has been condemned by misguided critics, overblown by some nervous defenders, and reflected in a cracked mirror by Hollywood. This week. TIME'S editors, in a definitive story followed by two pages of personality sketches of the twelve men on the cover, take a steady measure of Madison Avenue...
...Every overblown line underlines Miller's frantic rebellion against American society...