Sentence examples for off the hype from inspiring English sources

Pursue the dream if you like, but ease off the hype.

Last week, sitting in a cramped apartment in Brooklyn, Foreman shrugged off the hype and the history.

Yet the band shrugged off the hype effortlessly, proof that they were as grounded in reality as their music.

Reyes has not arrived here — his locker is crammed with eight unopened boxes and a stack of mail — but Buehrle shrugged off the hype.

Time to dust off the hype machine, set all dials to "overly judgmental" and call in the mysterious tastemakers to gaze into their crystal balls and determine who will romp to Adele-style glory and who'll join Mona in the bargain bins.

On Monday's Music Week on BBC 6Music (which you can listen to here), Ellie Goulding topped their Sound of 2010 poll of new acts to watch, beating acts such as Delphic and Hurts – the latter coming fourth despite having yet to play a live gig or release a single ("We intend to live off the hype," they smirked).

And while many in the black community were celebrating the idea of having an openly gay artist in the hip-hop industry, what we really had was a man who profited off of the hype and misinterpretation.

Also in 2008, a Finnish Nokia designer named Heikki Juvonen came up with this concept design, likely piggy backing off of the hype from the 5800's cameo in The Dark Knight.

With just four songs to her name so far, and still fresh off a debut US performance in New York earlier this month, her SXSW showcase should be an opportunity to see how much of the hype pays off in the flesh.

Nor is this the first time Tebow's on-the-field exploits have failed to live up to his off-the-field hype.

In some cases, skepticism over whether the balls are juiced or the players are juiced has taken some of the hype off the home run.