I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.
And the lists of departing Morgan Stanleyites in the newspapers have drawn attention away from their own troubles.To be sure, some of those departing have overblown reputations and others are merely pretending to have left, having in fact been fired.
The most fabulously overblown was his reputation as a brilliant sorcerer, "the Prince of Darkness", that soubriquet he once claimed to loathe but then embraced as a tribute to his skill with the dark arts.
Despite all this, he insists that his party boy reputation is overblown.
Toews's fellow young gun on the Blackhawks, Patrick Kane, said that the Captain Serious reputation was "overblown" and that Toews could cut up "like any other 22-year-old".
Mr Trump's reputation is as overblown as his hair and has hopefully been damaged beyond repair by the racist statements he made when announcing his run for the presidency.
But not only did Whelan believe the fuss over his new manager's racist, sexist and homophobic reputation to be overblown and undeserved; he could not resist saying so.
But soon afterwards the foreground of his life – his marriage and the end of his marriage to Sylvia Plath, and all the subsequent nomadic sex, interfered with that reputation like an overblown foreground obscuring the gem of a painting.
If, over a long career, that person had won renown as an economist but never once addressed income and wealth inequality or, in markets, the everyday imbalance of bargaining power between employers and employees, you might either think his fame overblown, or the way his reputation was inflated somewhat suspect.
Even on his first day, Tortorella was going to make himself clear, although he said his reputation was a bit overblown.
