Sentence examples for overblown on from inspiring English sources

You may get the performance, but then the engineers will say, 'we were overblown on that one line'.

And Bassey sounds gorgeously overblown on the track.

My concern going in was that performances pitched at theatre level might seem overblown on a cinema screen; these are, after all, two entirely different forms of acting.

Though he never looks stagey and has none of that hitting-the-back-of-the-theatre impact that can make Laurence Olivier look overblown on film, he nonetheless fills the screen, simply by letting us share something of the energy and power that was part of who he was and part of how he performed himself to others.

"I think the rope line was bad optics but a bit overblown on Twitter," Ryan said.

"I think this whole thing is overblown," one commenter said on Twitter.

When the time comes for us to reflect even more closely on the cultural markers of this generation, we will note the increased use of social media, the astonishing popularity of "haul videos" on YouTube, overblown sentiments on reality television shows ("this is my last chance, Simon Katieatie, 19), and naturally, the stratospheric rise of the selfie.

Thomas Innskeep from Stylus Magazine preferred the first disc of the album over the "ridiculously overblown ballads" on the second disc, adding that Back to Basics was "one of 2006's best when Linda Perry's fingerprints aren't present".

The work will strike many viewers as an uncompromising if overblown attack on the cultural criticisms of Rudolph Giuliani, Patrick Buchanan and Pat Robertson.

Although it might be causing fires in Sydney and drought in South-East Asia, in America it was just an overblown story on which people blamed every meteorological oddity.

He still blames feminism for promoting inequality; he stands by his Crummy Mummy poster campaign in 2013, attacking famous divorced mothers including Kate Winslet; and he is not about to take down all the overblown claims on his website, such as that Britain has a "North Korean style of family justice".