Sentence examples for almost overstated from inspiring English sources

Dressed with almost overstated understatement in a gray dress and a gray cardigan, she compared Obama to her father — "Fortunately, there is one candidate who offers that same sense of hope and inspiration" — with her mouth in a twisted half smile, as though anticipating the applause with a mixture of joy and embarrassment.

But the most overstated notion about Bradlee was the idea that he was an ideological man.

Mr. Travolta is almost as overstated, but he is saddled with a difficult accent he can't handle consistently and an unrelievedly one-note character.

The scene seems almost impossibly overstated – until you remember that in April 1942, when Britten and his partner Pears decided to return to wartime Britain from the US, but with no plans to enlist for military service, they had had to argue their way out of summary near-arrest when they landed at Liverpool.

Nevertheless, Magna Carta's significance during the founding of the American colonies is almost always wildly overstated.

"Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?" is so overstated it might almost function as a kind of reverse propaganda.

But Enron's shares have slid 92percentt from their peak, dropping its valuation to $5.2 billion, with a series of unwelcome disclosures in the last month -- including the admission that it has overstated profits by almost $600 million since 1997.

Other studies used different methodology, and the combination of flagrant youthful abuse of hallucinogens; the propagation of a flashy, otherworldly drug culture by Timothy Leary; and reports of health dangers from hallucinogens (some of which Dr. Halpern said were wrong or overstated) eventually doomed almost all research into psychedelic drugs.

It also revealed that most of its overstated profit relates to previous accounting periods.

The best reason to back the government, though, is that civil liberties concerns about DNA, now almost conventional wisdom, are abstract and overstated.

The performance of "Populism, Yea! Yea!" from "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," written by Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman, was a reminder of that show's anticipation of themes that seem less outrageously overstated than they did almost a decade ago, when it débuted at the Public.