(In the 1950s there had been quite a bit of over-promising, deception, and in too many cases out and out lying in advertising).
In baseball, the Cubs are threatening to pull the switch on Wrigley Field, if their renovation plans aren't approved, although as Jon Paul Morosi writes on Foxsports.com, it's all a bit of over-the-top grandstanding.
Its origins are shrouded in a bit of over-the-top romance: wild acorns were gathered in misty mountain forests, intensely labored over using old-fashioned millstones, and provided sustenance for riverside villagers.
Hands up who fancies a bit of over-long, self-regarding, wildly po-faced, pop-rock cock-water about heartbeats and rain and killing and saving lives and all that sort of utter, utter, utter balls.
Songs like Wonderful World and You Give Me Something may strike familiar poses (a bit of over-earnest Keaneplaysailor and a slightly forced Stevie Wonder, respectively) but they provide a warm, unifying, uplifting experience.
(Editors' Weblog) Viacom dodges takedown lawsuit Viacom has admitted a bit of over-zealous YouTube hammering (we need a sexier name for issuing a takedown notice for YouTube...) in which it ordered YouTube to remove a totally legitimate parody video made by someone else.
Allow natural silences and even a bit of over-talking or interruption, if it occurs.
I got cleared out, I had hands in my face and I think it was just a bit of over-exuberance in the end," said Haskell.
"From my very early stage (angel and seed perspective) there is quite a bit of over-valuation (relative to the Valley) going on.
