"It was coming out like a big overblown statement," he said, "a New York Philharmonic piece instead of a Stephen Hartke piece".
Mr. Cotton, 46, said "Elegy" was born of the desire to write a "public" work, although not big, overblown statement.
According to Thomson, "it is the ultimate bombastic or overblown statement of the artist as creator".
The refrain of "I Am," the album's overblown statement of purpose, proudly proclaims, "You'll never put your finger on me".
Try to avoid overblown statements — a "complete sea change" better be pretty big.
She has a tendency to make these fantastically overblown statements of intent – I'm going to bring my brother home, I'm going to avenge my father's death, I'm going to rule the ironborn – but something of a problem with the followthrough.
Why is it necessary for exhibitions to have such pompous, overblown statements?
"Why is it necessary for exhibitions to have such pompous, overblown statements?" she questioned, highlighting some of the year's best and worst offenders when it comes to verbosity, artybollocks and overblown, inaccessible statements.
And in telling the story of the Nazis' (and Hitler's own) addiction to artificial stimulants, especially methamphetamine, he is not afraid of making bold, possibly overblown statements.
The popular press often contains overblown statements from both those opposed and those in favour, as well as the more measured voices (see, for example, [3], [4], [5], [6]).
