Repeatedly insisting that his mature drama was comedy rather than tragedy, Chekhov grew distressed when producers insisted on a heavy treatment, overemphasizing the admittedly frequent occasions on which the characters inveigh against the boredom and futility of their lives.
"India as a nation had been overemphasizing economic growth in the hope it would somehow solve the problem," Aguayo said.
Mr. Whalen said, "There will be ample amusements to satisfy every taste, without overemphasizing any branch of attraction".
As many studies have shown, people don't have an intuitive understanding of things like margins of error and random sampling; they prefer to focus on a single number, even if it's falsely precise, and so end up overemphasizing the report's headline number.
"By overemphasizing certain parts, by recalling July 4th, for example, you might make it more difficult to recall July 5th.
Overemphasizing the national-security threat made it more difficult to get the rest of the world on our side.
But the China Youth Daily made the counterargument, that overemphasizing the role of social factors in what may simply be cases of deranged attackers runs the risk of drawing specious conclusions.
McBurney isn't overemphasizing the play's theatricality — he's giving the production the only theatricality it has.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet But the China Youth Daily made the counterargument, that overemphasizing the role of social factors in what may simply be cases of deranged attackers runs the risk of drawing specious conclusions.
Besides, Swan warns, "overemphasizing 'scripts' in our teaching can lead to a phrase-book approach, where formulaic learning is privileged and the more generative parts of language — in particular the grammatical system — are backgrounded".
He prizes a trim sound that clarifies inner lines without overemphasizing them but unhesitatingly demands a muscular, weighty sound when Beethoven's gestures are broader and grander.
