Word: overblown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There has never been any question about Mark Helprin's talent, and since his first books of fiction, A Dove of the East and Refiner's Fire, he has seemed on the point of accomplishing marvels. He has also seemed -- notably in Winter's Tale, an overblown fantasy starring an annoying magical horse -- to be a posturer incapable of modulating eloquence or intensity, a too appreciative taster of his own words, a gifted windbag...
...were clearly evident, features that were preserved and developed further when he became the leader of Iraq. He possessed a firmness that often turned into cruelty, a strong will bordering on implacable stubbornness, a readiness to go charging toward his goal, regardless of obstacles and the price, and an overblown understanding of such concepts as honor and dignity. Saddam was quite rational, but he had a penchant for making unexpected about-turns...
Evan B. Rauch this week undertook an unprecedented--and by some accounts, overblown--effort to see whether the council would like him to run for a second-semester term, given his stated intention to step down in April. Rauch employed the Hare System of proportional voting, an extremely complicated, but reportedly effective, balloting system straight out of the pages of John Stuart Mill...
...Also overblown, says Salem, are reports that Kuwait's hospitals are full of Iraqi casualties. "There are perhaps 200," he says, "but not thousands, as we know you have heard. On the other hand, our people say that the hospitals in Basra are indeed full. It seems that the Iraqis are taking their wounded home...
...think there is a lot of misinformation about the United States economy," said Boskin, adding that Americans should overcome an overblown fear of two major economic concerns, which he called the result of misinformation--increasing deindustrialization and slowing productivity...