Quotes About Overblown

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

Social media can blow anything out of proportion.

This is Lovecraft's best terrible story. It is so artificial...and so overblown...and so ludicrous...that it slithers-through tiramisu-rich prose that might as well be heavy metal lyrics (a wolf-fanged ghost that rode the midnight lightning)-all the way to the summit of high camp.

But big people's illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

It would be extremely unfortunate if the European experiment in freedom and tolerance unraveled due to an overblown fear of terrorists.

You're being kind of melodramatic.

My mother feared for my soul, a phrase that sounds to me now comically overblown, yet I remember that those were precisely the words she used.

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

My reputation is so overblown. I can count the number of men I've been with on two hands; it just seems like a lot because you recognize their names.

Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

This is the honest truth: I could absolutely care less on yards per game. I think that's a totally overblown stat.

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of interminable epistles to get to the point [...]

I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.

In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.

I had always been told that you shouldn't clean the litter box when you're pregnant, because of your cat. And I think that is overblown - unless you have, like, three kittens in your house that are living outside and eating raw meat, this shouldn't really be a significant source of concern.

overreacting melodramatic nonsense.

Rarely have we seen so much made over so little.

I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large.

Sounding a bit like Arthur Sackler when he dismissed the dangers of Valium, Romagosa asserted that fears of people becoming hooked on morphine had been overblown, because addiction "is a psychological malady" and only occurred when morphine was misused by "those who do not need it.