Like many of the numbers being tossed about in the stem-cell debate, this count is inflated by emotion: Langevin included all patients suffering from cancer, juvenile diabetes, heart disease and even arthritis as potential beneficiaries of the research.
He had revised some of his works, and suppressed others, in order to purge them not only of the qualities he associated with bad Yeats - false emotion, inflated rhetoric, empty sonorities - but also of anything that smacked of subservience to the party line.
At the time I first met him, he had recently written to Stephen Spender (in a letter quoted by Richard Davenport-Hines in his biography of Auden): "[Yeats] has become for me a symbol of my own devil of inauthenticity, of everything I must try to eliminate from my own poetry, false emotion, inflated rhetoric, empty sonorities".
Its lofty ambition obscures the detriments of its telegraphed emotions and inflated billboard-size Cubism, but time only adds to its patina of glory for the crowds that come to commune with it and who can now get almost, but not quite, close enough to touch the picture.
Ballard is guilty of forgetting the tone he so carefully crafted in the beginning, and emotions tend to be inflated, whereas before they were so natural and quiet.
When we protect our children from every problem and emotion, it creates a sense of entitlement and inflated self-esteem that often crosses the line into narcissism.
Seed: smooth, collar inflated.
Expectations are commonly inflated.
CT modules focus on understanding and correcting OCD-related beliefs (e.g., inflated responsibility, need for certainty, perfectionism) pertinent to each patient's symptoms, using specialized strategies and behavioral experiments to test and modify maladaptive hypotheses and related negative emotions.
Prices are wildly inflated.
Scores were probably inflated.
