Sentence examples for overblown fear from inspiring English sources

The point, of course, is not that we should declare war on rodents, but that cyberwarfare remains a slightly overblown fear.

As Mueller explains in "Overblown," fear of flying after 9/11 led to increases in long-distance driving that probably killed far more people in accidents than died on the four hijacked planes on 9/11.

Perhaps some quarterback will take a career-ending hit while running upfield, but quarterbacks have taken career-ending hits in the pocket too (NB: that video shows the brutal hit on Joe Theismann: watch only if you have a strong stomach).Some posit that the read-option will lead to the extinction of traditional pocket passers, but this seems an overblown fear.

Embodied on the screen by Bill Murray (in Art Linson 's underrated "Where the Buffalo Roam" from 1980) and Johnny Depp (in Terry Gilliam's overblown "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" from 1998) and travestied as the conspiratorial Uncle Duke in Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic strip, Thompson remains a durable icon of countercultural bad craziness.

As investors eventually learn that the consumer isn't tapped out (another overblown fear), this outstanding firm should sell at higher valuations than its current 12 times trailing earnings.

To alleviate the public's overblown fear, or even to slake a thirst for retribution, our lawmakers have repeatedly deemed more private acts criminal and doled out harsher punishments for a generation.

"The stocks have declined on overblown fears, resulting in share prices we think are very attractive".

The same is true of the overblown fears that genetically engineered food will somehow mutate and destroy the world.

He thinks the desire to avoid shame is a factor, as are overblown fears of harm to credit ratings.

C1 Outsourcing May Be Overblown Fears that international outsourcing has turned into a scourge for American workers may be overblown, according to a new report.

Instead of brandishing overblown fears to try to defeat a limited reform, Mr. Mukasey should be working with Congress to finally end the damaging 100-to-1 100-to-1 100-to-1