Sentence examples for excessive importance from inspiring English sources

Benoist responded, "I am aware of race and of the importance of race, but I do not give to it the excessive importance that you do".

Duchamp created the first ready-made, Bicycle Wheel (1913), which consisted of a wheel mounted on a stool, as a protest against the excessive importance attached to works of art.

Perhaps Davis's most serious mistake as commander in chief was the excessive importance he attached to defending the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, at the expense of operations farther west, including the defense of the key Confederate fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

This may be due to the excessive importance given to reduce child mortality.

For an automaker, for example, value creation comes from product development, capacity utilization and capital expenditures, though this became fogged in Detroit by the excessive importance of the United Auto Workers and pensions.

This can occur when some groups of Christians give excessive importance to certain rules, customs or ways of acting," Francis wrote.

His bold and colourful personality, unencumbered by false dignity or notions of excessive self-importance, seemed to announce: "Here is an unconventional mind".

Delusions of persecution, exaggerated self-importance, excessive distrust – it's ugly, it's unpleasant and it's par for the course for entrepreneurs.

It's like a downmarket UK version of the Miami Winter Music Conference, but without the excessive bling, self-importance and closet homosexuality.

In shaping its definitive portrait of Mr. Buffett, "The Snowball" need not make excessive claims of his importance.

In liver fibrogenesis, TGF-β is of crucial importance triggering excessive formation and deposition of connective tissue matrix molecules [ 2].