Word: overblown
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...would be "remembered as a short story writer, if at all." He was aware of the irony; he considered himself a novelist first, and regarded his shorter fiction only as a profitable distraction. He own attempts to secure lasting recognition had taken the form of a series of overblown novels, most of them well over 400 pages long...
...events and characters of Revolutionary America. Whether it is Abigail discussing the post-Yorktown morale in Massachusetts, or John recounting the lackadaisical diplomatic adminstration of Franklin in Paris, little misses their critical eyes. Adams is anxious to share his thoughts on politics with his wife. In a passage of overblown prose (often quoted with relish by Harvard colonial historian Bernard Bailyn), Adams salutes the Declaration of Independence...
First Time. The pageant had previously been staged in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Chamonix, France. Its New York debut was part of a week-long interreligious festival. Overblown publicity claimed: "For the very first time the spiritual-symbolic leaders of 2.7 billion people are coming to the United States." Not exactly, but those who did appear included the head of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, a Muslim statesman, a Hindu swami, teachers of Zen and India's Jain religion, a Sioux medicine man and a psychic ex-astronaut. The program also offered Shinto, Jewish and Buddhist rituals...
...palm, gave a speech that would have been a shocker if any of the "Phogbounds" had been listening. "The voices from the top today are by and large not the voices from below," he said. The findings in his polls, he continued, showed the people sick to death of overblown and phony talk. They viewed politics as "sadly out of date...
Certainly, representatives of the industrialized "First World" will reject much of the overblown rhetoric of the developing countries. Just as certainly, the "Second World" of the Socialist countries will make a show of complete support.* Nonetheless, the significance of the meeting may very well lie in the fact that leaders of the industrial world are likely to listen more attentively than ever before to reasonable Third World demands. As Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told TIME'S diplomatic editor Jerrold Schecter in the Middle East: "At the least we must have a dialogue. We cannot be in isolation from...