Word: overblown
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...youth culture he admires so much, as well as what must have seemed to his a battery of new perceptions about America. But nothing else really new emerges out of Dateline: America other than a few interesting interviews with young people and a few boring ones, all romanticized. overblown and laden with dubious significance by Kremen. There is no cohesive vision of what's happening to the country...
Bogdanovich is absolutely aware of how his faithfulness to the novella's dialogue makes the film slow-going. (To be fair, he's done an amazing job with James's ostentatious, overblown verbiage.) He knows how to tantalize in his own medium as much as James did in his through surprising cuts between scenes...
...slugged his way toward the 714 home-run mark last season, Aaron was annoyed by occasional hate letters and relentless coverage by reporters. Now Aaron has become the focus of an overblown rhubarb about where he should take his final swings at the record...
Kuerti presented the Liszt B minor piano sonata, a huge and difficult piece. Its one overblown sonata-form movement takes almost half an hour to perform. In it, Liszt explores extremes of pitch, timbre and volume as he takes two themes through striking and dramatic transformations...
LEGISLATION. President Nixon sent to Congress a long list of energy proposals designed to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. The President backed off from the goal of total energy "self-sufficiency" by 1980, which was part of his overblown Project Independence. Now he talked more realistically about reducing the nation's reliance on "potentially insecure foreign supplies of energy," by which he surely meant Arab oil. The President recommended...