Word: overblown
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...fears about being randomized into the Quad--and the controversy surrounding randomization--were way overblown. Granted, the newly instituted gender controls are a nice touch (some housemates have suggested calling Pforzheimer, with its 70 percent male sophomore class, "Pfratzheimer"), but bieng "Quadded" is not the same as being exiled. However, without great difficulty, the administration could reduce the disadvantages and inconveniences that stem from living farther away from the Yard...
...supreme upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, a Zen master of irony, By Jeeves has a blitheness that makes the audience feel as if it's on a holiday from the huffery and puffery of the Boublil-Schonberg musicals (and of Sir Andrew's overblown Sunset Blvd...
...disco number's respectable singing and choreography could well have closed the show, except that the plot had failed to rumble to its so-close-you-could-taste-it end. Instead, the audience had to sit through an overblown monologue by a minor character and a boring ballet (featuring a busty, less-than-agile camel) that turned into the Pudding's usual Rockettish finale. Throughout this ordeal, all I could do was shake my head...
...share similar experiences with war and poverty. Accordingly, the works, which range from large and small-scale mixed media to straight acrylic paintings, are all informed with an undercurrent of sheer nervous or stressful energy, giving many a frenzied and busy look that sometimes gives the piece an overdone, overblown appearance...
...fact, tensions between the two had been building, along with Redstone's growing fascination with his Hollywood operations. Redstone has compared himself frequently to Fox chief Rupert Murdoch, an aggressive, hands-on chief executive. "The references to me and Murdoch have been overblown," Redstone now says. "I do know that when Murdoch saw problems in China, the next day he was there. I don't want to take the slow boat to China...