Sentence examples for overrating from inspiring English sources

We should always remember the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup – fondly glorifying it, misremembering how slow the net run rates actually were, perennially overrating some of the ropey touring sides who made up the numbers against Australia and the West Indies and convincing the generations below us that it was cricket nirvana because occasionally, it truly was.

Overrating their abilities, personality traits and prospects can help people overcome obstacles, persevere at difficult tasks and feel better about themselves.

The ne'er-do-wells that fuelled the mortgage crisis by overrating trillions of dollars of dodgy debt have had a relatively easy time of it recently.

Narcissism – overrating or excessive interest in oneself – has apparently become more prevalent among young people in the Western world and a scientific experiment was set up to determine what actually causes this pandemic.

In "Moneyball," the film based on Michael Lewis's baseball book, Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, who revolutionized baseball through sophisticated statistical analysis: it turned out that managers were routinely overrating or underrating players.

The war, for Ferguson, was a catastrophe because overrating the German threat prevented British imperialism from proceeding on its essentially benevolent and necessary worldwide mission.

Our enthusiasm to tell the truth about David Beckham, that he was vastly overrated and much better deployed as the team mascot than as a walking-pace midfielder prone to yellow and red cards, was right.

True, the news agenda was different and splendid, but much else was overrated.

A highly amusing though grossly overrated book – it is no wonder that it was voted the 20th century's best American novel, because Americans sincerely believe that they actually invented style: the best that money can buy.

Richard Linklater's marvellous Boyhood has six nominations, but that is fewer than the decent but middling film The Imitation Game, about wartime codebreaker Alan Turing — and only as many as Clint Eastwood's fantastically dull and mediocre American Sniper, which has been hugely overrated.

Another American, Bershawn Jackson accused Greene of saying the Americans were "overrated" and said Greene had written a cheque that "he can't cash".