Sentence examples for exaggerated importance of from inspiring English sources

Kathryn Schulz's article on the exaggerated importance of the Underground Railroad to the abolition movement is misguided ("Derailed," August 22nd).

Daniel O. Sayers Chair, Department of Anthropology, American University Washington, D.C. Kathryn Schulz's article on the exaggerated importance of the Underground Railroad to the abolition movement is misguided ("Derailed," August 22nd).

• Many college football programs seem to have lost their moral compass, and the wildly exaggerated importance of the sport in American life is now eating away at the fabric of our academic and civic virtues.

The villagers are exasperated: the exaggerated importance of something which they see as completely removed from reality is bewildering.

From a primary prevention perspective, this finding is comforting and partially dismisses the need to lend exaggerated importance to symptoms of NSLBP in adolescents.

Students and, to some extent, professional designers seem to give an exaggerated importance to a restricted number of approaches, when they could take advantage of a wide range of available resources.

Such probing of a rival's systems is hardly new, though it has assumed an exaggerated importance because of all the feverish talk of "cyber-warfare".According to a report on cyber-security issued earlier this year by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the chances of a conflict fought solely in the electronic world are extremely slim.

The Olympic Games of 1964 have been given exaggerated importance as one of the great events in the history of the city and as the equivalent of the 1930 festival.

This low tolerance means that seemingly ancillary or fussy choices like the width of a volume button; the diameter of a rounded corner; the speed of an animation or scrolling action all take on an exaggerated importance.

Exaggerated importance?

"The danger in the exaggerated importance that politicians attach to Pisa, is that implicitly they are pushing the world to a narrow and particular view of education," said Prof Smithers.