Word: overblown
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...reader. Thernstrom avoids overblown prose, and her work is mimetic. She cannot explain the reasons for the egregious crime, because, she suggests, there is not always an answer to why. Given the topic and the author's near-brutal realism, The Dead Girl at times reads like an extended obituary. But the work never fails to be engrossing and rewarding...
Some who attended the gathering at the KennedySchool expressed anxiety over the potential costof reunification, but most said that such concernswere overblown...
Meanwhile, the Yale Daily News has reportedthat the campus is abuzz with rumors and confusionover the prospective changes, but it quoted YaleCollege Dean Donald Kagan as saying that "it's allwildly overblown...
...famous saying has it that truth is the first casualty in any war. Not only do national leaders like to employ overblown rhetoric to justify their decisions to send troops into combat, but once the shooting begins, those who must pull the triggers or staff the home front seem to prefer heroic mythology to the reality of fire and death. Understanding this, war correspondents from Homer to Ernie Pyle have tended to rein in their normal skepticism, serving up instead what both the government and the public want to hear...
...transit system, a strong police force that reduced certain categories of crime and, later on, an elaborate anti-AIDs program. Again and again, she showed a talent for bringing warring factions together. At the time, however, she was almost constantly beset by controversy. Liberals assailed her for allowing an overblown "Manhattanization" of the downtown business district and for overemphasizing tough law enforcement. Conservatives criticized her for leaving the current administration of Art Agnos with a "shortfall" of $140 million in the 1988-89 budget and for catering to minorities, especially the increasingly powerful gay community. "As a supervisor...