The last time I looked, North America included Canada, so Michael White's claim that this continent "remains the great blank on the world map of period performance" seems overstated.
At times, too, the emphasis on secrecy seems overstated.
We presumably meant that the number declined by almost half, but that seems overstated, since the 2012 figure is about 57 percent of the 2010 total.
In fact, the film's one real dramatic flourish, when Nihal meets Aydin's resentful tenant Ismail (Nejat Isler), seems overstated and misjudged.
And though the west coast line, which the new service will relieve, faces a supply crunch within 20 years, the projected doubling of long-distance rail passengers by 2043 seems overstated.
Without a comparison of the contributions to the creation of the black middle class by, among others, teachers, ministers, beauticians, caterers, country club headwaiters and, truth be told, the occasional numbers banker, Tye's premise that Pullman porters, more than any other group, "helped give birth to the African-American professional classes" seems overstated.
Netbooks represent an interesting development in the laptop space, but the talk of their being a revolutionary technology seems overstated.
So Bolton and Hill's worry about the compatibility of the medical with their "neural encoding" theory (2005, ch.2) seems overstated.
Second, the law allows prosecutors to calculate damage in a way that seems overstated.
