How To Use Overblown In A Sentence

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
The whole notion of momentum in sports is bogus, or at least way overblown. Just Who Are These Yankees?
And, as far as ridiculously pompous, overblown musical statements go, no-one holds a candle to Simple Minds.
While some of these images are serious, others poke fun at this period's overblown piousness.
I've posted several articles that quote British "nutritionists" making overblown or just plain loony claims about milk and dairy allergy. More UK Dairy Allergy Nonsense
After my rant last week about the downright overblown nature of Premiership football, a coltish newsroom colleague collared me.
Yes, I mean, even though, I mean, the media has overblown some of the problems a fair bit.
Yet, the New York Times fails to make that distinction and pretends that the the desperation was overblown.
Their clinical detachment also insulates them from their influences' anxiety-producing aspects: the anger, the druggy sloppiness, the overblown egos.
But a certain hardy minority think that the criticism is overblown and actually like using Vista. Hey, Microsoft Fans: What Would Your Vista Ad Be? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
It was a sprawling double album, which was, depending who you talk to, an overblown self-indulgence or the best thing he'd ever put on record.
I have been told the Lyme disease thing is overblown and the real thing to worry about is rocky mountain spotted fever. Has any of you guys ever had Lyme or othe tick borne disease? My DR.
But overblown melodrama soon bursts any intensity apart. Times, Sunday Times
The reporting of the hostage story was fair, if sometimes overblown.
Following the overblown success of his previous film, it seems karmic that his new one opened without a spectacular advertising campaign.
To say that the music is overblown and pretentious is rather an understatement.
Warnings of disaster may be overblown.
It's an overblown solution, but probably politically necessary - and a sure sign of a dangerous vanity.
His concern, given the context, seems overblown - even he thinks so, and he is chagrined by his own moral solicitude.
In satire, things tend to be exaggerated and overblown for effect.
Another ( no overblown ) climate change controversy may also be receding from view.
They will not lead the nation into unnecessary wars, overblown vanity projects or personal scandals. Times, Sunday Times
It's all a far cry from the formality and overblown camp of Sketch.
The company had intended the launch to be the usual raucous, overblown tub-thumping spectacle, but subsequent to last week's events a far more sober event will be appropriate.
Some tales, such as 'The Funeral' (1955) and 'The Doll that Does Everything' (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. Feb. 25th, 2009 - Issue 0.039
Precarious-sounding, perhaps, but better than overreliance on overblown institutions. Times, Sunday Times
Daphne lifts her chin in an overblown attempt at hauteur and heads into the closet to fetch her coat.
Some will, but disintermediation is overblown.
Of course it was a load of overblown marketing hype and all those glowing reviews (note: most of the glowing reviews I read were of the mono remasters) were written by tame journos happy to have a free £200 box set in return for saying whatever the hell EMI/Apple wanted them to say. Revolver turns out to be the Beatles album I like the least « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
Many of the digital images in this overblown cautionary tale remind us of humanity's relatively insignificant place in the universe.
She saw Clint as an aging pretty-boy, a gifted entertainer with overblown artistic pretensions.
That is overblown political rhetoric. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, someone had to file a lawsuit, which serves only to elevate this already overblown subject to new heights of lunacy.
The overly ornate and silver embossed font for the title and author name is ugly and overblown.
Humans show false strength with exaggerated postures and overblown words.
Andante maestoso was not an overblown anticlimax but the real apotheosis of Tchaikovsky's musical argument.
Sometimes I read responses that seem overblown and pretentious, and they make me wince.
Their behaviour and pretensions were overblown but they put out a good deal of material that retains vitality more than 30 years later.
It means not dividing people with overblown rhetoric or making promises that you can't keep. The Sun
Or just a bunch of overblown, macho mediocrities with a talent for self-mythologising? Times, Sunday Times
We were cocksure to cheese gift to panoply onwards but the tongueless overblown us from strindberg the absorptance, so we get an properly schizoid in bastnaesite. Rational Review
It's got nothing that typifies the term: no stuffy corridors, no overblown explanations, no assumption of knowledge.
Sure, Lov and O'Halloran's lyrics veer dangerously close to sophomoric, overblown, teen poetry, but really, what lyrics don't?
In her monastic habit she looked coarse and overblown: the severe lines and sober tints of the dress did not become her.
Prince's ‘Marlboro Men,’ for example, enlarged from cigarette advertisements, have a sensuous overblown color grain that evokes pointillism.
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
It's passionate but not overblown or melodramatic.
The recent ballyhoo about debt relief for 14 African countries was wildly overblown; it was no more than a modest first step.
The heroine's honour is unjustly impugned, but her alleged crime is such a peccadillo that the emotions associated with it seem ludicrously overblown.
Ged Dale, Eccles, LancsOne is a blowsy, overblown and preposterous melodrama played out to a hysterical score. Notes and queries: What's the difference between operas and musicals? Is getting there quicker cheaper? The house where Handel and Hendrix lived
We should avoid the overblown statements and tub-thumping oratory.
The language they used was high-flown - some would say overblown.
Their third record doesn't even care to noodle around with meandering epics; the songs on this nine song cycle clock in at five minutes or less, managing to sound grandiose without being overblown.
This woman has so far massacred every single one of the covers she’s done…from the overblown vocal theatrics of ANGELS to the insipidly uninspired neutralness of her TAKE MY BREATH AWAY to the so-minimalist-it’s-almost-inaudible vocal tics of THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING. Pick Jessica Simpson's next single | EW.com
Her influences – from Morricone soundtracks to doomy goth and opera – suggest her music could be preposterously overblown, yet Calvi is clearly an expert when it comes to dynamics and restraint. January's best new music from across the MAP
To modern eyes the furore may seem wildly overblown. Times, Sunday Times
If the mainstream media was as engaged in investigatory journalism like they were in the 60's and 70's there would not be so much overblown hysteria about non issues and so much ridiculous trash reporting, ala like that of the National Enquirer. cynthia Priest apologizes for mocking Clinton while at Obama church
overblown oratory
As is so often the case with these overblown movies, the swashbuckle could do with a bit of tightening. The Sun
That album was bloated, overblown and stuffed full of guitar solos and a misplaced sense of its own importance.
But he was trotted out for the media and expertly defused what was an overblown tiff.
It's called melisma, and most of the contestants on this overblown karaoke-thon simply can't resist contorting their high notes into some pseudo-gospel, neck-vein popping vocal run that's supposed to make everybody in the studio audience shit their pants out of sheer wonder. NewWest.Net All Headlines
Forget your preconceptions about opera - - it is not all about screaming voices and overblown melodrama.
Or, as Wallis has said, I think this idea that all the Christians, all the religious people are jammed in the red states and the blue states are full of agnostics is a bit overblown in the media. June 2006
Some were suggesting that his interest was overblown to distract attention from the company's poor trading statement.
So much so that the work seemed overdriven, overgeneralised and overblown. Times, Sunday Times
They called his charges exaggerated or said it was all overblown.
Other attractions include an open-air theatre, an aquarium, a zoo, a planetarium, a bizarre little naval museum and a slightly overblown Monument to the Fighters against Fascism.
They're overlong, overblown and over-acted, sure, but they're pretty entertaining nonetheless.
And I think, you know, the immigration thing with the license that she kind of waffled on and -- and really didn't give a decisive answer -- I think the planted question, although I think that was overblown, it's still a perception that that was calculated, you know, "They're picking on me" deal. CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2007
The typical film is an overblown piece of melodrama with a dash of Greek tragedy thrown in that runs on at interminable length. Times, Sunday Times
The Homeland Security secretary said most of those incursions are what he called innocent, and he declared reporting on the issue has been overblown and not helpful. CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2006
But for all the overblown peril, the attempt at a nail-biting climax is wholly unconvincing. Times, Sunday Times
But his stock-in-trade is moody, gargatuanly stringed incidental music for hysterically overblown movies like Moulin Rouge and Plunkett and MacLean.
It would have been nice to get a full live orchestra playing along to the film as it was playing, but practicalities no doubt get in the way of such overblown ideas.
While we study the pictures we are assaulted by an overblown, portentous, bombastic Bernard Herrmann score that borders on self-parody.
Of all the inconsequential rubbish dreamt up by television executives over the past half-century, this overblown and overrated junket must rank as one of the biggest misuses of licence-payers' money.
The cami tied around my neck and scooped in the back, with some ruffly parts down the middle of the back (not overblown ruffles, just gathered fabric).
The faded cretonne curtains faintly patterned with overblown roses and daffodils unseasonably intertwined were pulled back to show an inland view of the far Pur-beck hills. She Closed Her Eyes
Along with his sales has grown his sometimes overblown ego. Times, Sunday Times
In contrast, some of the other liberal arguments about the significance of this case seem tendentious and overblown.
As such, this huge biographical project is overblown.
And I definitely think the risk of cyberterrorism is overblown (for more on this, see here, as well as this essay on cyberwar). Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
The Prince was so sold on his own divinity that he used to make the longest, most seriously overblown entrances to boxing arenas in ring history.
Sir Neville's conducting is precise and delicate, never overblown.
Her poignant sounds fuel her husband's overblown images, forming an increasingly overheated circuit of baroque incommunicability that can only result in violence.
This is not to say that an overblown articulation lacks some denotational insight, I stress, but to say it lacks connotational impact. Archive 2010-03-01
To say that the music is overblown and pretentious is rather an understatement.
He's not really a scientist; he's just an overblown technician.
Some liberal arguments about the significance of this case seem tendentious and overblown.
We should avoid the overblown statements and tub-thumping oratory.
Yet it's not pretentiously overblown nor dragged down by fanboy baggage.
Years ago, my friend John Gilmore told me he thought accounts of the spread of botnets (massive networks of virus-compromised machines that can be used in concert to send spam, attack servers, etc) were overblown, because if botnets were really all-pervasive, then the price of using them should have crashed. Boing Boing
Sun-baked window displays were decked out with extravagant fairy lights and overblown decorations.
After my rant last week about the downright overblown nature of Premiership football, a coltish newsroom colleague collared me.
The afternoon carried heavy overtones of impermanency; the look of a rose on the way to being overblown conveys the same mood. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
The reporting of the hostage story was fair, if sometimes overblown.
He's not really a scientist; he's just an overblown technician.
His love of gritty realism and distaste for overblown production values go back to Blackburn, where Winterbottom was born in 1961.
R. R. Reno's connection of an overblown fear of suffering with acedia or spiritual apathy in ‘Fighting the Noonday Devil’ (August / September) gave me an ‘aha!’
I am tempted to say that Mailer and Capote deserve each other—two overblown reputations that owed more to extraliterary tomfoolery than to their writing. Guest of the non-fiction novelist
The yard was overblown by snow from the roof.
These narratives were overblown exaggerations, but polemicists employed their hyperbole to further political ends.
Apparently newspaper book review sections are suffering not because the reviews they publish increasingly go unread, or because the newspapers that sponsor them are being irresponsible in abandoning literary/cultural coverage that doesn't fill the financial coffers amply enough, but because of bloggers and their incessant scribbling, their blogs with funny names, and their goldarned "shallow grandstanding and overblown ranting," their "childish free-for-alls. Book Reviewing
With eight million worldwide album sales under his belt, Will could fund pretty much any overblown vice he fancies. The Sun
It has allowed overblown fears of lawsuits against European governments by multinational corporations to obstruct the most effective wealth creator known to humanity. Times, Sunday Times
Like a dreary overblown, overserious, super-depressing needless remake of a TV show most people had forgotten about. Colin Farrell Gets His Stalky Restraining Order
The drama primarily derived from the picture's human elements rather than overblown pyrotechnics.
With more and more of us now having satellite, Freeview, or cable, we consume this torrent of news in exactly the same way as we attack the overblown papers, except this time with channel changer in hand.
The reporting of the hostage story was fair, if sometimes overblown. Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America
Bigger and better, more ambitious and often completely overblown: that seems to be the message. Times, Sunday Times
She was in the throws of those gaspy hiccupy breaths that come after you've had a big overblown crying session.
We remember the speeches - how overblown they now seem. Times, Sunday Times
Countries with a high scientific and technological level are overblown with arrogance.
Successful operas have powerful, involving stories, even if they're overblown, rhetorical and, indeed, operatic.
As a result they find themselves stuck between their egotistical need to succeed and the overblown expectations that organisations place on them. Times, Sunday Times
Realistic threats may be exaggerated or overblown, in which case correct and balanced information can be used to reduce them.
It has allowed overblown fears of lawsuits against European governments by multinational corporations to obstruct the most effective wealth creator known to humanity. Times, Sunday Times
Much of his poetry is technically weak and diffuse, marred by careless versification, awkward shifts in diction, overblown rhetoric, and homiletic digressions.
Too often, these series are overblown and melodramatic, populated by gigantic, tentacled demons and screeching, white-haired ghosts, telling the same formulaic stories over and over again.
Sometimes in the overblown world of modern football, things just need to be said the way they are. The Sun
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Life lessons, exes, or your philosophical stance on the late Jacques Derrida (Overblown fraud or grand deconstructionist?
The bedhead was florid and overblown, its shiny walnut carvings reaching almost to the ceiling.
This blast of a CD opens up with one long fuzzy overblown riff that is the greatest rejection of the narcissistic tortured mumblings that currently prevail in much of the rock fraternity.
While divides among historians on this point are sometimes overblown, there have certainly been times when some of us have made the point that American history cannot be meaningfully "internationalized" if foreign affairs history is not at the table. Archive 2008-11-01
The tambourin has a wide dynamic range, and the galoubet is relatively gentle in its lower register, and shrill in its high, overblown octave.
Of course, the fears of the critics may be hysterical or overblown, but in that case, one wonders why they can't just come out and tell us that.
The yard was overblown by snow from the roof.
For now, these fears seem overblown, with the impact of the slide so far mainly beneficial. Times, Sunday Times
The typical film is an overblown piece of melodrama with a dash of Greek tragedy thrown in that runs on at interminable length. Times, Sunday Times
So while I think this is a cause for concern, it's not cause for the kind of overblown rhetoric I've seen around the web.
I thought someone made a good point in a different post - while the inauguration ceremonies are overblown and very expensive, having a big blowout is doing much more for the DC economy than canceling the celebration ever would. Balls? The Elite Were Elsewhere - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

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