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This ambiguity, however, should not be overemphasized.
Although some observers believe that data collection, especially in the Internet age, has been overemphasized at the expense of analysis, computer technology and the application of artificial intelligence, which allow computer programs to organize mammoth amounts of raw material for analysts, promise to make the tidal wave of information manageable.
European and American scholars have often overemphasized the so-called "life-negating" aspects of Hinduism the rigorous disciplines of Yoga, for example.
Unfortunately, he overemphasized the separation of executive, judicial, and legislative powers, considerable in Locke's day but by his own time tending to be concentrated in the sovereignty of Parliament.
It is right that the political aspects of Cleisthenes (who was in fact far from producing democracy in the full sense) can too easily be overemphasized at the expense of the military; but the better view is that the new system had advantages on more than one level simultaneously.
Consisting only of 27 chapters, the book is incomparably smaller than Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyyah, but its importance as an expression of Ibn al-ʿArabī's mystical thought in its most mature form cannot be overemphasized.
The impact of Hasidism on eastern European Jewry cannot be overemphasized ; even in Lithuania, where it did not take firm hold, it stimulated the growth of a homegrown pietism in the Musar (ethicist) movement of the mid-19th century, and it renewed the Talmudic energies of its opponents.
The importance of carbohydrates to living things can hardly be overemphasized.
Althusser asserted that this "Hegelian" interpretation overemphasized the early Marx, who had not yet overcome the "ideological" delusions of Hegelian philosophy, and neglected the mature Marx of Capital (1867) and other works, in which he attempts to develop a new "science" of history focused not on human beings but on the impersonal historical processes of which human beings are the bearers.
Some critics have overemphasized these parental details, reducing the rhizomatic complexity of her work to child's play, with Erector sets and Tinkertoys topping the list of metaphors.
Readers might also appreciate Deborah Solomon's interview with Tannen this weekend in the Times magazine, in which Solomon asks about the literary themes of sisterhood: Would you say that literature has overemphasized the darker side of sisterhood?
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The primary grammatical function of "overemphasized" is that of a verb in the past participle form . It's used to indicate that an action of emphasizing something excessively has been completed. Ludwig examples show its use in stating that certain aspects, details, or interpretations have been given too much importance.
Expression frequency: Very common
