Scatological gags, of which Mr. De Palma seems especially fond, also leap out with disproportionate emphasis.

But the article gave disproportionate emphasis to the crisis and not enough to the opportunity.

As a large woman, Nixon's size has received disproportionate emphasis in the media.

A frummer in that sense is a person displaying a disproportionate emphasis on technical aspects of religion at the expense of worldly or practical concerns.

Correspondingly, the unspeakable destiny that awaited Anne was eclipsed by a disproportionate emphasis on the girl's idealism.

People believed that it "placed disproportionate emphasis on violence, racial hatred, and class struggle."

Owing, however, to the common connotation of these words, they seemed to lay a disproportionate emphasis on the negative aspect of the movements, namely, opposition and conflict.

They said that the "disproportionate emphasis on the military aspect of U.S. policy is counterproductive."

Geographically, there is a disproportionate emphasis on Chesapeake Bay and New York Harbor.

But with the benefit of hindsight, some argue that this so-called unmet need theory put disproportionate emphasis on birth control and ignored other serious needs.