Depending on who you read, this collaboration between British playwright Simon Stephens, German director Sebastian Nübling and Estonian designer Ene-Liis Semper, at the Lyric Hammersmith in London, is either self-indulgent, overstated, too enigmatic by half, or one of the best pieces of theatre you will see this year, a joyride, a captivating dream.
Although her character, too, has her somewhat overstated peculiarities — she treats her collection of dolls as if they were her own ample brood of babies — Ms. Alsip comes closer to endowing her part with a human core.
"It's quite clear that the new arrangements put a seal on low inflation rather than achieving it," says John Flemming, a former chief economic adviser to the Bank.If claims that the reform of May 1997 has transformed the inflation outlook are overstated, so too are charges that an independent Bank has made a hash of monetary policy.
Mung beans have come to typify hippy cooking, too often sniffed at for their overstated health-giving properties and blandness.
Yet the novel's later sections are marred by overstated irony, the dialogue too often staged between characters who agree, making for an authorial soapbox.
However, they too contain assertions that are misleading or overstated.
September 2014: The previous month's guidance turns out to be too optimistic as Tesco reveals it has overstated profits by £250m and calls in Deloitte to investigate.
Some economists, including the former head of the China division at the International Monetary Fund, question whether the World Bank has now gone too far in the other direction and overstated prices in China.
The revised manuscript must also avoid the exaggerated and overstated claims that mar the current version.
