Sentence examples for In overstatement from inspiring English sources

Young musicians typically find security in overstatement.

Seymour was, to say the least, engaging in overstatement.

But there is also a danger in overstatement that presents the problem as unsolvable and future outcomes as inevitable.

But if a movie of this kind didn't traffic in overstatement, it wouldn't be doing its job, which is to provide a strong dose of simple, rousing emotion.

(Brantley) 'The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos' (closes on Sunday) This phantasmagorical wallow, set in a dystopian future, exults in overstatement (the title has at least two additional subtitles) as it riffs on Brecht's "Mother Courage" and many other influences.

The use of self-report measures, which may result in response bias (e.g. social desirability, mood state) and in overstatement of the relationships between the examined constructs [ 47], does serve as limitations of the study.

We have to wait for the turn of the 18th century for the modern love letter to appear – a thing of charm and tongue-in-cheek overstatement, like this one in the 1700s from the playwright William Congreve to Mrs Arabella Hunt, a court musician: "Recall to mind what happened last night.

AOL Time Warner executives said that in the last 10 days the company had learned of three transactions that might have resulted in overstatements of revenue at its AOL division.

Ncom, the company's majority-owned unit, which was called NewCom at the time, recorded $43.2 million in overstatements, the S.E.C. contended in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles.

The use of Medicare claims to identify dementia results in an overstatement of the increase in Medicare costs that are due to dementia.

Williams veers into overstatement in his face-off with Bates, screaming and waving a handgun.