Word: overblown
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...defense and the pursuit of peace. It also sidetracks the press from its role as watchdog on the great issues. The distraction can, in turn, disillusion allies and invite aggressive moves by unfriendly nations. When a scandal is legitimately grave, all that is worth enduring. If a scandal is overblown, however, the nation is subjected to a deplorable, unnecessary burden. Politics and government are arts of compromise, of weighing one concern against another. Those who place ethical absolutism above all other interests should bear that in mind...
...would be overblown to call Meredith or the University of Mississippi symptoms, but because they were representative of the civil rights battles of the early 60s, they can be considered some sort of symbols of the fallout 20 years later. They make it clear that the progress made in the preliminary years of the movement was incomplete and not without some cost to those involved. Jacob M. Schlesinger
Liberal economists argue that fears of a too rapid recovery are overblown. Says Heller: "We have lots of headroom for expansion and no prospect of revived inflation for quite a long stretch ahead." Heller points out that wage costs, a central element of inflation, are still declining. Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein challenges the common assumption that the money supply is expanding too fast. He notes that M2 and M3, two broader measures of money that include various types of savings accounts, are growing within their target ranges. The narrower M1 figures, he adds, may have been distorted by the swift...
...some couples remain tempted today by the opportunity that a wedding offers for self-expression. It is a temptation that should be resisted. The vows that couples devise are, with some exceptions, never as moving to the guests as they are to the couple. Too often the phrases, words overblown and intimate and yearning all at once, go floating plumply around the altar, pink dreams of the ineffable. Friends and family lean forward in their pews. The clergyperson beams inscrutably, abetting the thing, but keeping counsel. The guests are both fascinated and faintly appalled to be privy to such intense...
...York, the overblown parodies of Italy's Sandro Chia