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• It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
• Sociologists Claude Fischer and Greggor Mattson have argued that while much talk about America fragmenting is overblown, “gaps by social class and educational attainment are widening among Americans by almost any measure.” American Grace
• It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
• Kevin Newcomb suggests that stories in which Ask. com becomes a woman's search engine are overblown and erroneous. Internet News: Another interpretation of the Ask.com situation
• Few human pursuits can conjure up such overblown expectations, fanned by holiday brochure photo-spreads showing impossibly white beaches domed by suspiciously azure skies.
• The threat of cyberwar is overblown, he argues. Times, Sunday Times
• However, don't think Queen Mary 2 is another clone for the lumbering, simpering, overblown jolly boats wallowing and waddling around the world's sunshine destinations.
• The grandedame gestures of the late fifties had gone, the overblown and icky sentiment had gone.
• Heck, even the venerable New York Times devoted substantial ink to the whole overblown affair.
• In English it can seem ridiculously overblown. The Times Literary Supplement