Word: overblown
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...Statesman and Nation, she was already a minor celebrity. She wrote with an authority beyond her years or experience in a prose in which, at its best, a logic of music was magnificently mated to a logic of ideas. At its worst, it was excessive and overblown. Sometimes she took time out from her breadwinning chores to write a novel (Harriet Hume). Sometimes she collaborated on satirical sketches (Lions and Lambs, The Rake's Progress) with Cartoonist David Low. She managed to get abroad a good deal, and a shimmering list of continental hosts and hostesses were always eager...
Mozart: Concerto No. 4 for Horn, K. 495 (Dennis Brain, horn, with the Hallé Orchestra; Columbia, 4 sides). Brain gets brightly through this exhilarating work, with an occasional overblown trill but nary a burble. Recording: good...
...repertory company is not varied enough with the different characters, nor is it funny enough, to hold up through the last two acts. Occasionally one gets the feeling that "Is Life Worth Living!," rather than being an "exaggeration in three acts," is essentially one act exaggerated into an overblown philosophy in three, but much of the slowness can probably be accounted for by the vagaries of opening night tempo and timing. The answer to the title, incidentally, seems to be yes, although there are some doubtful moments...
...nicely done. And an article by Durham M. Miller about the contemporary mating "dilemma" is amusing and has a point. More of this sort of thing, more simple narrative along the lines of a story in an earlier issue entitled "Good Men Are Hard to Find," and less overblown neuroticism would make "Radditudes" more balanced than it has been in its last two issues...
Stairway to Heaven. British fantasy, imaginative if overblown, with David Niven, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey (TIME...