Sentence examples for overemphasize and from inspiring English sources

For example, a car's acoustics emphasize some frequencies at the expense of others, so Bose equalized the sound by softening the frequencies the car's acoustics would overemphasize and boosting those it would diminish.

And she's had it with parents who profess to want nothing more than "happiness" for their children ("Kids laugh when I tell them that their parents don't mention money as a measure of success; they think I've been snowed," she divulges) while neglecting the aspects of family life that build enthusiasm and contentment, and overemphasizing values and activities that can actually do harm.

But most parents understand that such measures are overemphasized and overrated.

In many people's minds, I think, the embellishments of this upheaval … have been overemphasized and its essential dignity and purpose have been overlooked.

But it has become clear to us over time that testing was being overemphasized — and misused — in schools that were substituting test preparation for instruction.

Philip Hamburger was there, at that square in Milan, for The New Yorker: In many people's minds, I think, the embellishments of this upheaval — thousands of Partisans firing their machine guns into the air, Fascist bodies lying in a heap alongside the gas station, the enormous, pressing crowd — have been overemphasized and its essential dignity and purpose have been overlooked.

In many people's minds, I think, the embellishments of this upheaval — thousands of Partisans firing their machine guns into the air, Fascist bodies lying in a heap along side the gas station, the enormous pressing crowd — have been overemphasized and its essential dignity and purpose have been overlooked.

From a phone booth in Alaska, where he is hunting for peppered moths, he said the role of lichens had been overemphasized and that grime alone had probably been enough to give the black form of the moth its transient advantage.

The importance of a good fit cannot be overemphasized, and only you (and the PI) can make that determination.

Planting trees as an adaptation measure should not be overemphasized and the extension system should introduce diverse adaptation options to climate change.

The city's economic importance therefore cannot be overemphasized and this continues to account for the high influx of economic migrants who then exert pressure on the city's already scarce natural and man-made resources.