Word: overblown
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...Wall Street Journal story is wildly, dramatically overblown.' Google spokesman ADAM KOVACEVICH, disputing the article's claims, saying the search giant had simply installed its own servers to speed up delivery...
This means that the apologetic angst of the confused party is usually overblown. The fact is that one has to look to different physical cues when identifying people of different races. When I meet another South Asian girl, I am not going to look to her hair or eye color as a distinguishing feature. Rather, I’ll instinctively note other physical features, like eye shape or the texture of her hair. These visual markers could easily escape someone who has grown up in an environment with few or no South Asians—someone who has never before...
...legislature and judiciary - as witnessed by the scores of opposition candidates who, like López, were peremptorily disqualified from running - his acceptance of Sunday's results preserved his democratic bona fides. "Aside from his party winning big," says Jones, "he showed that the evil-dictator image is still overblown." After Sunday, it seems, Chávez can best keep things that way by turning ahead to problems that need to be tackled next year, instead of back to matters that voters already decided last year...
...Admittedly, the above stories were little more than superficial miscues overblown to some extent by the media. But Palin also showed a shocking lack of fundamental awareness on a number of important national and international issues. From her much-derided Katie Couric interview to her unfamiliarity with the Bush Doctrine that has governed our foreign policy for eight years, over just a few weeks she accumulated gaffe after gaffe...
...Four of the five academics said they agreed that the proposal was mostly in line with principles of good design, and that while the density issue may be overblown, there is some merit to the residents’ criticisms of whether the plan sufficiently integrates affordable and market-rate units...