"I fear this young man has gotten caught up in an overreaction to [last year's] anthrax attacks," says Ronald Atlas, a bioterrorism expert at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, and president of the American Society for Microbiology.
The two-tee start was in retrospect an overreaction to a wild forecast.
In fact, the overreaction to criticism harms our political discourse, damages the effort to combat real anti-Semitism, and because it serves to enable destructive Israeli policies, it makes a just peace a near unattainable goal.
Reading the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program is a deeply disturbing exercise for those who believe that our country strayed far from its principles in a hysterical overreaction to the fears of a second, 9/11-style attack on the homeland.
"It's killing the flight-training industry in the United States, this overreaction to Sept. 11," Mr. Eloy said.
I had thought that the reflexive denials and defenses of many on the right were simply an overreaction to, in their view, being unfairly accused of racism on too broad a scale.
In November 2012, Pistorius tweeted about his overreaction to an unexpected noise in his home.
Borrowing a term Ms. Bachelet had used earlier in the day, he called the community blockades the result of a "collective psychosis," an overreaction to images in the news media of looting in nearby Concepción.
The essence of Mr. Goldberg's astute article, summed up in his final observation — that the relatively dovish Israeli president, Shimon Peres, would prefer overreaction to underreaction in dealing with existential threats — highlights the Israeli dilemma.
But many people in the league wonder if it is not an overreaction to a decline in the ratings.
