"When I told Pat Robertson how much people were sending, he thought I was totally inflating the numbers," Eckstein recalls.
A lung is similar to a balloon in that it resists stretch, tending to collapse almost totally unless held inflated by a pressure difference between its inside and outside.
Come to think of it, those sight gags were not totally frivolous: after all, inflating balloons does require breath, and breath was a theme of "The Breathing Show".
Maybe since that 1953 film, portrayals of female stereotypes with glasses have been inflated to the extent of totally predictable making characters written easier for the viewer to identify as a nerd or popular person.
"There are people who dislike him intensely and are totally iconoclastic about his reputation, which they consider inflated.
While he believes that magazines may never be as inflated as they once were, that doesn't mean that they and their editors will become totally irrelevant, either.
While he believes that magazines may never be as inflated as they once were, that doesn't mean that they--and their editors--will become totally irrelevant, either.
P.S. our karma must be so inflated after this; if everyone I went to high school with doesn't get diabetes this year, something is totally up in the universe.
Prices are wildly inflated.
Scores were probably inflated.
