Sentence examples for something out of proportion from inspiring English sources

The fuss surrounding this movie did, and does, have something fevered and intemperate about it, something out of proportion to its nature; it is, after all, just a motion picture.

"There is something so out-of-proportion about having Alice Munro as my mother," she wrote.

Annoyances: trivial insults that prompt an out-of-proportion reaction.

There is something comically out of proportion about that.

But if you were having a slow news day, you're welcome for me giving you the opportunity to blow something completely out of proportion.

The correct balance is much better than something completely out of proportion.

(Laughs) That rumour's gotten very out of proportion.

"I just feel like every time the white people did something," Ms. Jones said, "they dropped it, and every time the black people did something, they blew it out of proportion".

His father is uneasy, and Howard has a sense of trading this much coveted weekend for something intangible and way out of proportion.

He had neither talent nor wish to be an authoritarian Speaker; he believed in letting angry people let off steam, had no great notion of the sacredness of ministers and reckoned that the kicking up of a row was not something to be got out of proportion.

"I'm very thankful that everyone involved has taken it how it was - as something which was blown out of proportion in terms of what actually happened".