Word: overblown
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...right for the longer run. His best reparation to the American people will be in redoubled effort on the stubborn problems of domestic policy and follow-through on his statesmanlike openings in foreign policy. The public, for its part, is already coming down off some of the more overblown views of the presidency, and that is why so many people are able to see considerable good coming from Watergate. The public has perceived that the President of the United States, even as other men, can be very good at some things and quite deficient in others...
Williams attacks his subject from the flank, through the invented journals and letters of Augustus' family, friends and enemies. He breathes life into Old Friend Maecenas, generous patron of the poet Horace but a terrible versifier himself, and the fluttery Ovid, burlesqued by Williams in a splendidly overblown poem. The most vivid character is Augustus' daughter Julia, a Becky Sharp of the Roman salon...
Marion speaks softly when he talks about first place. He doesn't want to make waves with talk of titles. He does not want fate (and the opposition) to take his cautions optimism for overblown pride, because...well...all the first place talk is very "iffy...
...self-centered expressions of fulfillment will seem like romanticized existential ism. In middle age, Gold has really very little to say, except to keep some of his old fans up to date. To be fair, he admits to the modesty of his renewal. If only some of his overblown prose on the subject didn't lead the reader to think Otherwise...
...insert just enough sound, analytical comment and show just enough of a good, if somewhat overblown, prose style to make the reader take you seriously, when in fact--all you're concerned with is trying out your wings, rather hatefully, as a "columnist...