Word: overblown
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Considering the economy's weakness, many experts argue that fears of crowding out in the market are also overblown. Reason: as companies increase their long-term borrowings, they are paring their short-term debt even more, thus easing their overall demand for credit...
...President can achieve all his goals in two years, certainly not if his performance is matched against the invariably overblown rhetoric of his platform and campaign speeches. Nonetheless, midterm is an appropriate point for an interim assessment of how well Ronald Reagan is doing in pursuing the main themes of his presidency, which he sketched with unusual clarity and force as a candidate. It is a mixed record...
Like Decathlon Winner Bruce Jenner, Leonard imagined his place on the Wheaties box was secure. His error, confusing the commercial opportunities awaiting white heroes and black heroes, was soon revealed, along with a paternity suit, a sadly overblown welfare department formality. Leonard never denied he was the father of Juanita Wilkinson's boy child. But the mean publicity that followed was the clincher: if Leonard hoped for his own 7-Up commercial, or anything else, he would have to fight...
Watching this film fold is in itself an unnerving spectacle. Though Fitzearruldo is almost as overbudgeted, overproduced, overblown as many Hollywood bondanzas, the added symbolic and idenlogical freight produced a particularly land thud when the whole thing falls aprt...
...much resonance as the picture of the RCA dog cocking an ear for "His Master's Voice." In establishing Fitzcarraldo's motivation so haphazardly. Herzog undermines the rest of the film at the outset: instead of being drawn into a grand quest we are forced to watch an overblown whim...