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    overblown


    1. An overblown female supposed anchor, God forgive us


    2. This supposed atrocity may be the most overblown case of hysteria and grievance politics in all of American history


    3. It tends to be a little overblown in the imagination


    4. If Obama’s transformative rhetoric was noted at all it sounded to most voters more like typical overblown campaign filler than anything seriously contemplated


    5. She laughed at my jokes when I was funny, and had no hesitation calling me a joke when I was obnoxious and overblown


    6. On the other hand, there are numerous, heartwarming cases where kids look out for one another, so this conflict thing between siblings could be overblown


    7. She also could not see a single air raid shelter, while the base’s officers’ mess turned out to be an overblown complex, complete with pool and garden patio


    8. “To be frank, I thought that your reputation as a fighter pilot was overblown but I have to recognize that you amply proved your skill in air combat today


    9. He had then asked her why she had not included Bradley or Eisenhower, to which she had replied that she considered Bradley as a general with an overblown reputation and with no real genius


    10. Did it contain a distillation of his own overblown report or was it something else? Either way it didn’t look good

    11. Zeppelin’s subsequent epics would be a tad overblown (“Kashmir”) or a bit flat (“Achilles Last Stand”), but “Stairway” is when all of the pieces fell into place during their magical peak


    12. Those three words are the most overblown words in history


    13. that is way overblown and hyped out of proportion


    14. The display in the window screamed New Age, in a way that was tacky and overblown


    15. angry memories and the reliving of stupid arguments and overblown frustrations


    16. How much of the news is only designed to momentarily catch your attention, with some sort of crisis, catastrophe or sensationalism? How much of it panders to people's fears? How much of it is just overblown hype? Add up all of the thousands of hours of watching such eye-catching sound bites and what benefit is it to you? Does it add to your happiness? Knowledge? Wisdom? Experience? Insight? What beneficial effect does it have? What use does it serve? Satisfying the need to gawk? Or be vicariously titillated? Or horrified?


    17. An overblown ego being deflated is only funny if the person whose ego is being deflated can see the ridiculousness of it


    18. The very insanity of this medieval Asian despot running amuck in a modern Europe with an army of more than 2 million men on a personal crusade to save Slavic freedom; when he himself was a total autocratic authoritarian and oppressed all attempts for ethnic national autonomy within his own huge overblown empire which he had no understanding of and no control over


    19. active side to this wisdom, but even so, the magical expectations of outsiders are the overblown


    20. The entire forest seemed to shake and I groaned inwardly at how this was going to overly inflate the horse’s already overblown ego

    21. That sounds ridiculous and overblown, since I at least know that eventually the pain will fade and I’ll be able to get out of bed and not bite back screams


    22. These controversies, while overblown by the media, did serve to reinforce to some people the notion that mental healthcare wasn’t yet ready for parity


    23. Once she had seen Belle in a store, a coarse overblown woman now, with most of her good motherly looking


    24. People who did well on the math and science quiz were more likely to hold an extreme view of climate change in one direction or another—that is, to consider it either gravely dangerous or wildly overblown


    25. Despite a litany of administrative and technical difficulties that remain even to this day, concerns regarding corporate governance and securities regulation are overblown


    26. Sonkin spotted it on his daily scan of the new lows list, and after he did some research on the company, he came to believe that the bad news had been overblown


    27. And it also worked because he did not buy into-instead he sold into-the overblown optimism that inflated the price of telecommunications shares in early 2000


    28. Nuclear power is a sector that has been vilified in the eyes of many because of the safety concerns, but I believe this is overblown and will offer a number of investment opportunities


    29. As you read historical articles written about the business or SEC filings, begin to identify those periods when the business encountered a difficult situation, such as an economic downturn, product recall, negative media coverage that was inaccurate or overblown, or a lawsuit


    30. I soon realized that Wall Street’s concerns over the debt issues were massively overblown

    31. He was good at handling the overblown egos on the Hill and a near prodigy at motivating people


    32. The ad appeared during the middle of an intermediate correction in the market, but its warnings were so overblown that the market immediately rebounded and rallied for several days


    33. A celebration was being planned on May 19 for JFK’s forty-fifth birthday—a big, overblown, televised spectacle that was to take place at Madison Square Garden


    34. When the media or the public picks up a story and runs with it, prices often get overblown


    35. And option prices can get way overblown


    36. The Pollack Report also supported the SEC's findings that allegations of ruinous short selling were overblown


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    Synonyms for "overblown"

    overblown grandiloquent pompous pontifical portentous

    "overblown" definitions

    puffed up with vanity


    past the stage of full bloom