They have become outsized repositories of beauty.
In Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway," characters are troubled and traumatized by their inability to maintain a proper "sense of proportion"; ordinary tasks — life itself, for one of the characters — become outsized and unmanageable.
And I think that when people worry that business jargon has come into our everyday lives and is taking over, that part of what they're expressing is a worry that the influence of business has become outsized.
While the Olympics have become outsized, intimate Lake Placid retains ties to simpler times, be it 1932, when the Winter Games first came to visit, or 1980, a time remembered fondly by Americans for the Miracle-on-Ice United States hockey team.
So here's hoping that the next debates, town halls and interviews reveal which, if any, candidates for chief executive understand that the federal government became outsized as it became more outsourced — and that, by every measure, today's full-time federal workforce is overloaded, not bloated.
There is a foul brilliance in how Ferrante sticks with the logic of Olga's illogic, so that an ordinary enough complaint about the difficulty of raising children becomes an outsized revulsion, and the stink of motherhood leads inexorably to the incestuous end of all marital eros.
"So the ads are of diminished importance in a social media age, and things like debates become of outsized importance".
Retirement packages among corporate titans have become so outsized today that some of them can make Mr. Cheney's look like chump change.
For a city struggling to rebuild its shattered ego, the Krueger-Scott project has become an outsized symbol of Newark's faded glories, bungled opportunities, and aspirations for a more glorious future.
For example, if you own a stock that has appreciated tremendously, it may become an outsized allocation and warrant rebalancing.
